Charles Moore, Civil Rights Photographer

[Frank W. Baker]

For some time now, I have been using some of Charles Moore's LIFE Magazine photographs in my visual literacy workshops. It saddens me to learn of this news of his death:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/16moore.html

For those who wish to know more about him and his work, I suggest:

Powerful Days: The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore

Powerful Days (the book)

KODAK: Powerful Days in Black and White

Charles Moore: I Fight With My Camera (documentary)

Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement...

The Race Beat : The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
( the Pulitzer Prize winning book)