Thom: Commercial Projects

The archive of Wayne Thom, a renowned architectural photographer who shot only with natural light, worked without assistant and meticulously printed his own images," came to the University of Southern California Libraries in September 2015."Thom’s stunning photographs of landmark buildings throughout the American West and Asia... include many buildings on the USC campus, including images of von KleinSmid Center, the 1968 USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism building, Heritage Hall, Varian Hall and others."The collection dates from the 1960s through 2012 and in addition to his photographs include his extensive graphic design work such as architectural brochures for clients."Thom, who was born in Shanghai, raised in Hong Kong and migrated to Vancouver before coming to California to study at Brooks, has photographed across the Pacific Rim, as well as throughout the Western United States. He uses a 4×5 Sinar view camera, a distinctive Swiss brand favored by architectural photographers and professionals doing advertising product work. Thom stuck with film until 2003, when he felt that the quality of digital cameras had improved enough for his exacting standards."The Wayne Thom Photography Collection in the USC Digital Library comes initially from the images Thom shot digitally or digitized himself. He provided access to many of these on his Website (https://waynethom.com/). Additional images were digitized by the USC Digital Library from his analog photographs.All quotations are from Allison Engel. "Architectural photographer Wayne Thom's beautiful images head to USC Libraries" in USCNews (2015 August 31). -- https://news.usc.edu/85649/photographer-wayne-thoms-archive-heads-to-usc-libraries/ (last visited: 2015-11-19).

知名建筑摄影师韦恩·汤姆（Wayne Thom）仅以自然光进行拍摄，无需助手协助，且亲自一丝不苟地冲印所有作品，其档案于2015年9月入藏南加州大学（University of Southern California）图书馆。
汤姆拍摄的美国西部与亚洲各地标志性建筑摄影作品极具感染力，其中包含南加州大学校园内诸多建筑的影像，例如冯·克莱斯米德中心（von KleinSmid Center）、1968年落成的南加州大学安嫩伯格传播与新闻学院大楼、遗产堂（Heritage Hall）、瓦里安堂（Varian Hall）等。
该藏品的创作时间跨度为1960年至2012年，除摄影作品外，还包含他为客户制作的大量平面设计作品，如建筑宣传册等。
汤姆生于上海，在香港长大，早年移居温哥华，后赴加州布鲁克斯摄影学院（Brooks）深造，其拍摄足迹遍布环太平洋地区与美国西部全境。他使用4×5画幅的仙娜（Sinar）视图相机——这是一款深受建筑摄影师与广告产品摄影从业者青睐的瑞士知名品牌相机。汤姆始终坚持使用胶片拍摄，直至2003年，他认为数码相机的画质已达到其严苛的创作标准。
南加州大学数字图书馆中的韦恩·汤姆摄影藏品，最初源自汤姆自行拍摄的数码作品或自行数字化的影像，他曾在个人网站（https://waynethom.com/）上开放其中诸多作品的访问权限。其余作品则由南加州大学数字图书馆对其胶片摄影作品进行数字化处理后入藏。
所有引文均来自艾莉森·恩格尔（Allison Engel）于2015年8月31日发表于USCNews的文章《建筑摄影师韦恩·汤姆的精美影像入藏南加州大学图书馆》，原文链接：https://news.usc.edu/85649/photographer-wayne-thoms-archive-heads-to-usc-libraries/（最后访问时间：2015年11月19日）。