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Chalkie Davies
5 catalogued objects connected to Chalkie Davies.
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Biography
Person.
Chalkie Davies is a Welsh photographer from Sully, near Cardiff, whose work documents music and performers of the 1970s and 1980s. A staff photographer at the NME from 1975 to 1979, he made covers and features and travelled with musicians including Paul McCartney, Elvis Costello and Thin Lizzy.
He subsequently worked on The Face with Nick Logan and photographed record sleeves, including Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous. His portraits and music-press work were brought together in Chalkie Davies: The NME Years at National Museum Cardiff in 2015.
Reviewed 2026-09-06Selected sources
- National Museum Directors' Council — 2015 exhibition highlightsSully background, NME tenure, touring work, Live and Dangerous sleeve and Cardiff exhibition.
- National Museum Cardiff exhibition listing, via Museums.EUWork on The Face with Nick Logan, record-cover work and scope of the 2015 retrospective.
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PER-F674FC5752138E96
Represented across objects dated 1980–1981.
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