Margo Davis

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

Margo Davis
Born	Margo Baumgarten 1944 (age 80–81)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	UC Berkeley (BA)[1] San Jose State University (MA)[2]
Known for	Fine Art Portraiture, Documentary Photography
Spouses	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.