Dody Weston Thompson
Dody Weston Thompson was a 20thcentury 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 , Brett Weston and Ansel Adams during the late 1940s and through the 1950s, with additional collaboration with Brett Weston in the 1980s.
Dodya childhood nickname that she adopted on her ownwas born Dora Harrison on April 11, 1923 in New Orleans. Both her parents were early influences on her later career. Abraham Harrisons profession as a filmmaker offered Dody her first introduction to the sights, sounds and smells of film processing. Known as Harry Harrison, he was first a minor league ball player, then a newspaper photographer and finally a producer of the famous Fox Movietone News, the short news and sports newsreels that played from 1928 until 1963 in theaters before the feature films.
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