Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Civil rights photographer Charles Moore dies

American photojournalist Charles Moore, whose work chronicled the civil rights era of the 1960s, has died aged 79. Moore was one of the first photographers to document the rise of Martin Luther King as a civil rights leader, and had the only camera at the scene when King was arrested for loitering in Montgomery in 1958. One of his shots shows two white police officers manhandling King, whose right arm is wrenched behind his back. Much of his work was published in LIFE Magazine.

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