Background
Thomas Landon Davies was born in 1943 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.
Gallerist Photographer teacher
Thomas Landon Davies was born in 1943 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States.
Davies received a BA in Psychology in 1965 and an MA in Art in 1976. He took workshops with Ansel Adams in 1966 and 1975 and with Minor White in 1971.
Davis co-founded The Photography Place, a complete photographic facility and gallery, in Philadelphia, in 1971, and has co-directed it since then. He has also been a photography lecturer at Rosemont College, Pennsylvania, since 1973 and was an instructor in photography at the University of Delaware, Newark (1973-76).
Davies won a Connelly Foundation grant in 1979 for the study of pre-1850 photographic equipment and materials. In 1973 he invented the Davies focusing tunnel, “a major innovation in dark-cloth technology." In 1978 his camera obscura was included in Fine Woodworking’s Biennial Design Book Two.
A member of SPE since 1972.
