Moore’s photograph of King’s arrest moved on the Associated Press wire and was picked up by Life magazine, transforming what had been a regional story into a national debate.
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Documenting Selma, From the Inside – NYTimes.com
Documenting Selma, From the Inside
The best-known images of the civil rights era were often dramatic and shocking, intentionally so, to jar a nation into action. But James Barker provided a quieter, insider’s perspective to the daily struggle.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/02/documenting-selma-from-the-inside-2/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog
A timely new show at the Steven Kasher Gallery in New York, “Selma March 1965,” reminds us that not all civil rights photographs were created equal. Commemorating the 50th anniversary this month of the historic Selma-to-Montgomery marches, the exhibition features the work of three documentarians of the protests: James Barker, Spider Martin and Charles Moore.
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INTERVIEW: "Interview with Charles Moore"
An Interview with Charles Moore
Birmingham, Alabama, 1963
“I believe in something strongly, and I’m going to stand up for it. And I knew and my father knew – he taught me, that I better not ever mistreat people, just because of color. That is really where I come from.”
Oral Hi
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When I’m working with a camera, I’m focused on what I’m doing and I’m aggressive. I’m gonna get out there. You are going to have to kill me to keep me from doing the pictures I want to do – because it was so important to me. Why? Maybe
because of my background, maybe because I love photography, and it was a dramatic event. Because I felt the way I did. I did not like seeing what I did, and I’m a fighter. If I had – and I have – fought before with my fist, but in this, I fight with my camera. That’s my tool. That was my weapon. I believe in something strongly, and I’m going to stand up for it. And I knew and my father knew – he taught me, that I better not ever mistreat people, just because of color. That is really where I come from. -
Charles Moore (rip): I fight with my camera (watch this, please) | duckrabbit
Charles Moore (rip): I fight with my camera (watch this, please) — duckrabbit
Charles Moore is the legendary Montgomery photojournalist whose coverage of the Civil Rights era produced some of the most famous…
The noted historian, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. said that Moore’s photographs transformed the national mood and made the legislation not just necessary, but possible. This is his story.
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Charles Moore Dies; Depicted Rights Battles – Lens
Charles Moore Dies; Depicted Rights Battles
Charles Moore, who died last week, took some of the most memorable photographs of the civil rights struggle.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/parting-5/
The photographs are still shocking.
In one, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — America’s foremost advocate of nonviolent social change — is manhandled like a common thug in a Montgomery, Ala., police station.
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Photographer Moore dies at 79 | TimesDaily.com
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Charles Moore died Thursday at his home near West Palm Beach, Fla.
Link: Photographer Moore dies at 79 | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL