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Dody Weston Thompson collection

 Collection
Identifier: AG 258

Scope and Contents

Photographs and contact prints by Dody Thompson Weston, undated, circa 1940-1991; one photograph by John Sexton and one photograph by Jerome Baker.

Dates

  • undated, circa 1940-1991

Creator

Language of Materials

Material in English

Conditions Governing Access

To access materials from this collection, please contact CCP-RefDesk@email.arizona.edu

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission from the copyright owner (which could be the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates or literary executors) prior to any copyright-protected uses of the collection.

The user agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents, the University of Arizona, Center of Creative Photography, including its officers, employees, and agents, from and against all claims made relating to copyright or other intellectual property infringement

Biographical Note

Photographer Dody Weston Thompson, (1923-2012), was a founder of the photographic journal, Aperture and was married and a creative collaborator with the photographer Brett Weston from 1952-1956. Thompson favored creating sharp-focus, realistic photographs of natural objects in the style popularized by Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, both of whom she assisted. In 1952, Thompson was the second photographer to win the San Francisco Museum of Art’s Albert M. Bender Award. Ms. Thompson’s husband of 48 years, aerospace executive Daniel Michael Thompson died in 2008. Dody Weston Thompson died in Los Angeles on October 14, 2012, at the age of 89.

Extent

6 Linear Feet

Metadata Rights Declarations

  • License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.

Arrangement

  1. Chronological

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the Thompson Family Trust in 2014.

Separated Materials

Three photographs from this accession were added to the fine print collection.

Processing Information

Leslie Squyres kept the original order of the boxes as received from the Thompson Family Trust. The print numbers, title, date were supplied by the Thompson Family Trust.

Title
Dody Weston Thompson Collection undated, circa 1940-1991
Author
Finding aid created by CCP Archives Staff
Date
© 2021
Description rules
Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding aid encoded in English

Repository Details

Part of the Center for Creative Photography Archives Repository

Contact:
1030 N. Olive RD
Tucson Arizona 85721 United States