"Diana Davies is a well-known photographer of folk performers and festivals...Born in 1938, Davies grew up in Maine, the Catskills, New York City, and Boston. Davies left high school at 16, and worked sweeping out coffeehouses, which gave her the opportunity to listen to music while she worked. She became interested in theater and music. In Greenwich Village, she began doing some sound technician work, and then got interested in photography. She taught herself how to develop and print photographs in a darkroom, and began photographing in theaters, shooting from behind the scenes. Her theater photos are at Smith College in Northampton, where she presently lives. In the early 1960s, she began working with the editors of Broadside Magazine, Sis Cunningham and Gordon Friesen. She developed an interest in human rights work, which grew from her contact with Sis and Gordon, and also her own family background. She also worked as a photographer in a wide range of settings, eventually working for major national and international media including the New York Times, covering such events as the war in Biafra, and traveling to Mexico, Cuba, and Portugal on assignment."

Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. “Diana Davies Photographs.” Accessed July 14, 2021. https://folklife.si.edu/archives-and-resources/diana-davies-photographs.