We know James Karales from his photographs of the American Civil Rights movement, especially the famous image of, “Selma to Montgomery March, Alabama, 1965.” But that’s just one chapter in his career as a photojournalist for Look, a bi-weekly magazine published from 1937 to 1971. An exhibition at the Howard Greenberg gallery in New York offers a selection of his documentary work, from a series on a mining community in Rendville, Ohio, to another about the sinking of the Andrea Doria (1956), along with images from Vietnam, landscapes and simple street scenes. The exhibition presents photographs he took from 1956 to 1969, which are magnificently composed and moving in their humanity. Apart from this retrospective, the unjustly neglected James Karales is also the subject of a forthcoming book from Steidl, with texts by Vicki Goldberg, Howard Greenberg and Sam Stephenson.
James Karales
Until December 14th, 2013
Howard Greenberg Gallery
Suite 1406?41 E 57th St
New York?
USA
Tel: +1 (212) 334-0010
