Dody Weston Thompson collection
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Not requestable
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
- Creation: undated, circa 1940-1991
Creator
- Thompson, Dody W. (Person)
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
- 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
