Margo Davis

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

Margo Davis
Born
Margo Baumgarten

1944 (age 76–77)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUC Berkeley (BA)[1] San Jose State University (MA)[2]
Known forFine Art Portraiture, Documentary Photography
Spouse(s)
  • Gregson Davis
  • Anthony Browne[3]

Personal life

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

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
  • 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
  1. Were, Natasha. "Days of Yore - Photographer Margo Davis". RealLife. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  2. Kazak, Don (3 Nov 2004). ""Under One Sky" by Margo Davis". Palo Alto Weekly. Retrieved 2 Sep 2014.
  3. "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. 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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