Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lynn Davis is an American photographer known for her large-scale black-and-white photographs which are widely collected publicly and privately and are internationally exhibited. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1944 she studied at University of Colorado between 1962 1964, and at the University of Minnesota from 1964 1966. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1970, and in 1974 she began her career as an apprentice to Berenice Abbott. Davis' first exhibition hung at the International Center of Photography in 1979, alongside her close friend Robert Mapplethorpe.