In Conversation with Dorothy Davis, Part I

On being the daughter of a ‘visionary’ Foreign Service father and finding her own place in the world.

Dorothy Davis grew up in her father’s world, mostly captured through his own lens. Yet within it, she was free. She nurtured her own interests, rebelled here and there, and followed in her dad’s footsteps by osmosis rather than any overt prodding. Decades after he’d passed, she became his partner and co-creator. What he recorded, she would someday recou…