Background
Myron Davis was born on July 3, 1919, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was the son of a Kansas school teacher who later became registrar at a high school in Chicago.
photojournalist war photographer
Myron Davis was born on July 3, 1919, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was the son of a Kansas school teacher who later became registrar at a high school in Chicago.
Myron Davis received a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature from the University of Chicago. He took up photography after his mother explained how to process film and prints, constructing his own darkroom.
When at the University of Chicago Myron Davis photographed for the student magazine, then for the alumni magazine and eventually for the university publicity office. He met Bernie Hoffman a LIFE photographer and, after dropping out of university, eventually was put on staff, their youngest recruit, in 1942, working in the Chicago bureau and then in Washington. In 1943 Myron Davis became a war correspondent photographer for LIFE in the Southwest Pacific.
After leaving LIFE for family reasons Myron Davis directed a film for RKO Pathé in New York on the G.I. Bill college program and freelanced for Ladies Home Journal, Collier's, and the Saturday Evening Post, and worked for the Chicago Sun-Times. He then became managing editor for Advertising Age magazine.
Myron Davis was injured when a fire broke out in his Hyde Park apartment and died at the University of Chicago Hospital, April 17, 2010.