The Ways of Langston Hughes: Griff Davis and Black Artists in the Making is an exhibition of Griff Davis’ photographs of Langston Hughes with students, writers, artists and performers that opens on February 1 at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
One friendship began in the classroom at Atlanta University when photojournalist Griffith Davis (1923 – 1993) was a student and Hughes a visiting professor. After graduating from Morehouse College in 1947, Davis became the first Roving Editor of Ebony magazine at the recommendation of Hughes. In 1948, Davis attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and rented a room in Hughes’ Harlem home on East 127th Street. Davis used Hughes’ home as a base while working as an international freelance photojournalist. Hughes used Davis’s marriage to Muriel Corrin Davis in 1952 as the basis for Simple Takes a Wife of his Simple series.
Multiple professional collaborations emerged from the mentorship, as did an enduring friendship. In this exhibition, Griff Davis’s photography is complemented by archival material from the Schomburg Center’s collections and letters reflecting decades of personal correspondence.
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