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| Born | Margo Baumgarten 1944 (age 79–80) |
| Nationality | American |
| 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]
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]
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