Dody Weston Thompson, Point Lobos, California, 1997, by Robert Backstrand
Born
Dora Harrison
(1923-04-11)April 11, 1923
New Orleans, Louisiana
Died
October 14, 2012(2012-10-14) (aged 89)[1]
Los Angeles, California
Nationality
American
Education
Sophie Newcomb College Black Mountain College
Known for
Photography
Movement
The West Coast Photographic Movement
Awards
Albert M. Bender Award
Patron(s)
Edward Weston Polaroid Corporation's Artist Support Program
Dody Weston Thompson
Other names
Dody Warren
Dody Weston Thompson (April 11, 1923 – October 14, 2012[1]) was a 20th-century American photographer and chronicler of the history and craft of photography. She learned the art in 1947 and developed her own expression of “straight” or realistic photography, the style that emerged in Northern California in the 1930s. Dody worked closely with contemporary icons Edward Weston (her former father-in-law), Brett Weston (her former husband) and Ansel Adams (as an assistant and a friend) during the late 1940s and through the 1950s, with additional collaboration with Brett Weston in the 1980s.
Dody was invited in 1949 to artistically participate with the remaining members of the photographic organization Group f/64, a bastion of the emerging West Coast Photographic Movement. In 1950, she was also one of the founding members of the non-profit organization that published the photographic journal Aperture in 1952, to which she was also a contributor. In 1952, she was co-awarded the prestigious Albert M. Bender Award (known informally in the West as the “Little Guggenheim”) which financed a year's work in photography. Her camera work is represented in dozens of museums and private collections as well as in many photographic books and magazines. She also participated in multiple solo and group exhibitions from 1948 through 2006 in the United States and Japan.
Dody penned commentary on the history of photography and on the techniques of contemporary photographers, focusing on the artistic legacies of Edward Weston and his son Brett Weston. Her articles appeared in many photography books and journals from 1949 through 2003. Her skill in literary criticism was highlighted in her chapter on the novelist Pearl S. Buck in the 1968 book American Winners of the Nobel Literary Prize.
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