My career was 100% different from what I intended to do. I thought I’d photograph nature and landscapes but I wound up photographing the changing of the times.
Charles Moore Quotes
My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words."
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| Birth: | 9th March, 1931 |
| Death: | 11th March, 2010 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Photographer |
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Charles Lee Moore was born in Hackleburg, Alabama. He was an American photographer most famous for his photographs documenting the American civil rights era. 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.
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