Margo Davis

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Margo Davis
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Born
Margo Baumgarten

1944 (age 81–82)
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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