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Margo Davis

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Margo Davis
Born
Margo Baumgarten

1944 (age 79–80)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUC Berkeley (BA)[1] San Jose State University (MA)[2]
Known forFine Art Portraiture, Documentary Photography
Spouses
  • Gregson Davis
  • Anthony Browne[3]

Margo Baumgarten Davis is a photographer, educator and author of several photographer's books.[2]

Personal life

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Margo was raised in Connecticut and has lived for over 30 years in Palo Alto, California.[2][1] She attended Bennington College,[4] spent time at the Sorbonne studying French literature,[2] and graduated from University of California, Berkeley. It was at UC Berkeley where she met her first husband Gregson Davis and traveled frequently to his home country of Antigua.[5][1] She has a daughter, Anika and a son, Julian.[6][3][7]

Photography career

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Davis has produced photography in Paris, Italy, Nigeria and in the Caribbean, and has done a significant amount of portraiture. Davis has photographed Saul Bellow,[6] Maxine Kingston, Tillie Olsen, Ursula K. Le Guin, Diane Johnson, and Kay Boyle.[8]

In Nigeria, Davis produced a number of photographs of the Fula people.[9]

Davis has spent time lecturing at Stanford on photojournalism with the communications department.[10] She has also taught photography at University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Santa Cruz.[11]

In 2017, Margo's book Antigua: Photographs 1967-1973 was published by Nazraeli Press. At interview, Margo said she produced the book after hearing interest expressed at an exhibit in Antigua.[12]

Publications

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  • Davis, Gregson; Davis, Margo (1973). Antigua Black: Portrait of an Island People (1 ed.). San Francisco, California: Scrimshaw Press. ISBN 091202030X.
  • Davis, Gregson; Davis, Margo (1983). Antonia Astori, Designer. Naples, Italy: Edizioni LAN.
  • Yalom, Marilyn; Davis, Margo (1983). Women Writers of the West Coast: Speaking of Their Lives and Careers (1 ed.). Santa Barbara: Capra Press. ISBN 0884962040.
  • Davis, Margo; Nilan, Roxanne (1989). The Stanford Album: A Photographic History, 1885-1945. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-804-71639-0.
  • Davis, Margo (2004). Under One Sky. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804742665.
  • Davis, Margo (2017). Antigua: Photographs 1967-1973 (1 ed.). Munich, Germany: Nazraeli Press. ISBN 978-1-59005-448-2.

References

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  1. ^ a b c Were, Natasha. "Days of Yore - Photographer Margo Davis". RealLife. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d Kazak, Don (3 Nov 2004). ""Under One Sky" by Margo Davis". Palo Alto Weekly. Retrieved 2 Sep 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Weddings;Anika Davis, Eliot Pratt". New York Times. 27 August 2000. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  4. ^ "The Landscape of the Face". The Magazine. Bennington College. 2005. pp. 12–15. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  5. ^ "Parallel Lives". MD Magazine. Vol. 27. March 1983.
  6. ^ a b Walker, Meg (12 May 1982). "Accidental moments and raffias". Palo Alto Weekly.
  7. ^ "Margo Davis". Gentry Magazine. June 1995.
  8. ^ Yalom, Marilyn (1 July 1990). Women Writers of the West Coast: Speaking of Their Lives and Careers. Capra Press. ISBN 9780884962045.
  9. ^ Greth, Carlos (15 Oct 1985). "'Humanistic photographer' from Palo Alto records life of nomadic Fulani". Peninsula Times Tribune.
  10. ^ Cline, Lee (2 Apr 1985). "Photo exhibit strong, diverse". The Stanford Daily.
  11. ^ "Under One Sky, Margo Davis". Stanford University Press. Retrieved 2016-02-03.
  12. ^ Paull, Laura (5 January 2017). "A photographer who shoots under one sky". The Jewish Week. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
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