article_snippet: (Two weeks after he Birmingham pictures appeared in a landmark issue of Life magazine, a letter to the editor succinctly captured the elemental power of Charles Moore's work.
article_snippet: his Birmingham pictures, wrote a reader from Indiana, were "superb and bone-chilling.")
article_snippet: Of course, there are lots of really good pictures of the era by, say, Bruce Davidson, Bob Adelman and others, but Bruce Davidson, Bob Adelman and others're Northerners -- and
article_snippet: There's a sense in many of the photos made in the South by Northern photographers that what they were capturing was somehow exotic.
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