This is not a photograph, but a framed and matted introductory description of Charles Moore’s limited edition twelve photograph set. M405-1 “Pictures That Make a Difference: The Civil Rights Movement” Moore's photographs have been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums, and his books include 'The Mother Lode: A Celebration of California's Gold Country' (1999) and 'Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore' (1991). Moore has traveled extensively to universities around the country to present lectures and workshops on photography. He also photographed the civil war in Dominican Republic the Vietnam War and political disturbances in Haiti and Venezuela.Ĭharles Moore won the first annual Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism in 1989.

Moore is well known for his civil rights photographs, which include the enrollment of James Meredith at the University of Mississippi in 1962 Ku Klux Klan rallies in North Carolina in 1965 and the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. In 1962, Moore quit his job at the newspaper and became a freelance photojournalist. Moore and frequently published his photographs. It was those photographs that caught the attention of Life magazine editors, who later employed Mr. Moore was the only photographer at the scene, and his photos were noticed nationwide. being arrested after trying to visit a friend in the courthouse. After several assignments involving the Civil Rights Movement, Moore took a series of photographs of Dr. In 1957 he left fashion photography and went to Montgomery to work as a photographer at 'The Montgomery Advertiser' newspaper. Moore returned to Alabama and began his career in fashion photography in a portrait studio. He served three years in the military, and then used his GI benefits to help fund his education at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California. After graduating from Deshler High School in Tuscumbia, he joined the US Marines. Charles Moore was born in 1931 in Hackleburg, Alabama but grew up in nearby Tuscumbia, Alabama.

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