Margo Davis
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1944 (age 81–82)
- Gregson Davis
- Anthony Browne[3]
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| Born | Margo Baumgarten 1944 (age 81–82) |
| Alma mater | UC Berkeley (BA)[1] San Jose State University (MA)[2] |
| Known for | Fine Art Portraiture, Documentary Photography |
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Margo Baumgarten Davis is a photographer, educator and author of several photographer's books.[2]
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]
