article_snippet: It's important to remember that Charles was a white Alabaman," Kasher said.
article_snippet: Kasher was the photographer at the Montgomery Advertiser -- hardly a bastion of integration -- who became very sympathetic to the movement.
article_snippet: Charles was not parachuting into these marches and protests in the South.
article_snippet: Whether Charles was chronicling the overt, graphic suppression of human rights or framing a profoundly human moment -- as in Charles unforgettable shot of bloodied poet Galway Kinnell in Selma -- Charles's photographs often feel as if Charles was shooting with Robert Capa's famous dictum ringing in Charles ears: "If your photographs aren't good enough, you're not close enough.
article_snippet: There's no question that Charlie made some phenomenal pictures," said Loengard -- who, incidentally, took one of the most memorable photos of the civil rights era: a Life cover of Medgar Evers' weeping widow and son at the slain activist's funeral in June 1963.
article_snippet: And Charlie did a terrific job, for example, on a cover story on (Alabama Gov.)
article_snippet: George Wallace in the first few months of People.
article_snippet: What's especially significant to George Wallace in the first few months of People about Charles' civil rights work," Kasher said, "is Charles' clear affinity with nonviolence at the same time that Charles''s depicting the irrationality and brutality of the segregationists.
article_snippet: Charles was an American photographer known for Charles images documenting the civil rights movement in the 1960s.