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