Charles Moore (photographer)
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Charles Moore was an American photographer who documented the Civil Rights Era.
In 1958, while working in Montgomery, Alabama for the Montgomery Advertiser, Moore photographed an argument between Martin Luther King, Jr. and two policemen.[1] His photographs were distributed nationally by the Associated Press, and published in Life magazine.
From this start, Moore traveled throughout the South documenting the Civil Rights Movement. Moore's most famous photograph, Birmingham, depicts demonstrators being attacked by firemen wielding high-pressure hoses. U.S. Senator Jacob Javits, said that Moore's pictures "helped to spur passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."[2]
Moore also photographed conflicts in the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Haiti, and Vietnam.
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[edit] Bibliography
- Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, (2001) University of Alabama Press, ISBN 978-0-8173-1152-0
- The Motherlode (2006), Chronicle Books
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[edit] References
- ^ About Charles Moore. Kodak. Retrieved on 12-26-2006.
- ^ About Charles Moore. Kodak. Retrieved on 12-26-2006.
