Margo Davis

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Margo Davis
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Born Margo Baumgarten
1944 (age 79–80)
Nationality American
Known for Photography

Margo Baumgarten Davis is a photographer, educator and author of several photographer's books.[1]

Personal life

Margo has lived for over 30 years in Palo Alto.[1] She has two children.[2]

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,[2] Maxine Kingston, Tillie Olsen, Ursula K. Le Guin, Diane Johnson, and Kay Boyle.[3]

In Nigeria, Davis produced a number of photographs of the Fula people.[4]

Davis has spent time lecturing at Stanford on photojournalism with the communications department.[5] She has also taught photography at University of California, Berkeley, and University of California, Santa Cruz.[6]

Publications

  • The Stanford Album: A Photographic History, 1885-1945
  • Antigua Black; Portrait of an Island People
  • Under One Sky
  • Women Writers of the West Coast: Speaking of Their Lives and Careers (photographer)

References

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