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Dody Weston Thompson (April 11, 1923 – October 14, 2012〔) 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''. ==Most popular photographic works== Some of her most popular photographic works include: * ''Edward Weston at Rhyolite'', Nevada, B/W, 1948 * ''Ghost Town Kitchen'', Rhyolite, Nevada, B/W, 1948 * ''Pool with Log'', Yosemite, California, B/W, 1949 * ''Black Dune No. 3'', Oceano Dunes, California, B/W, 1952 * ''Porch'', Marin County, California, B/W, 1952 * ''High Sierra Pool'', Yosemite, California, B/W, 1950 * ''Leaves'', Garrapata, California, B/W, 1951 * ''White Dune No. 1'', Oceano, California, B/W, 1951 * ''Lava Rocks'', Greasewood, Owens Lake, California, B/W, 1952 * ''Brett in the Dunes'', White Sands, New Mexico, B/W, 1952 * ''Edward's Desk at Wildcat Hill'', Carmel, California, B/W, 1954 * ''Edward’s Mailbox at Wildcat Hill'', Carmel, California, B/W, 1953 * ''Canal Scene with 'Eros','' Venice, Italy, Color, 1976 * ''Ferro No. 1'', Venice, Italy, Color, 1977 * ''Rusted Metal Drum'', California Desert, Near Owens Lake, California, Color, 1988 Her black and white portraits include those of Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Brett Weston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dody Weston Thompson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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