Charles
Lee Moore (March 9, 1931 – March 11, 2010) was
an American photographer most famous for his
photographs documenting the American civil rights era.
Moore
was born in 1931 in Hackleburg, Alabama. He served three years
in the U.S. Marines as a photographer and then attended
the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara,
Calif. He next applied for a job as a photographer with the morning
and afternoon newspapers The Montgomery Advertiser and The
Montgomery Journal.
In
1958, while working in Montgomery, Alabama for the
Montgomery Advertiser, he photographed an argument between Martin
Luther King, Jr.and two policemen. His photographs were distributed
nationally by the Associated Press, and published in Life.
From
this start, Moore traveled throughout the South documenting
the Civil Rights Movement. His 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."
In
1962, Moore left the newspapers to start a freelance career. He
worked for the Black Star picture agency, which sold much
of his work to Life.
Moore
went on to cover the Vietnam War and many other trouble
spots. He then moved on to nature, fashion and travel photography, in
addition to corporate work.
He
also photographed conflicts in the Dominican
Republic, Venezuela and Haiti.
In
1989, Charles Moore became the first recipient of the Eastman
Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism which
is awarded for a "body of photographic work which has influenced
public perceptions on important issues of our time" in
the NPPA–University of Missouri Pictures of the Year
Competition.
In
2008, Moore's last photography observed the removal of a tree
at Barton Hall (Alabama), a historic 1840's plantation home.
Moore
died at age 79, on March 11, 2010, in Palm Beach
Gardens, Florida.
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