Diana Davies

As of 2018, Davies was living in Northampton, Massachusetts. She continues to perform in musical groups — including as percussionist for the group Flame n Peach and the Liberated Waffles.

In the 1990s, she shifted her focus to illustration, painting and graphic art and largely ceased working as a photographer.

From the 1960s through the 1980s, her work appeared in such publications as Life, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. Davies aligned herself with the Gay Liberation Front and contributed images to Come Out!, a magazine published by the GLF. She documented the first [Pride Parade] in New York City on 28 June 1970.

In the 1960s, Davies became involved in photography during her work with theatre and music, and began her work using equipment purchased at a yard sale. She taught herself how to develop and print her own photos, and began her photography work shooting behind-the-scenes images at theaters.

Diana Davies (b. 1938) is an American photographer, playwright, painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and musician who was one of the leading photojournalists documenting the feminist and gay liberation movements of the 1960s and '70s. Her photographs cover the early days of diverse women's and LGBT social movements, as well as the Civil Rights, Peace, and farmworkers' rights movements.

Diana Davies was born on July 20, 1936 in Manchester, England.