Description: Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who appears in some of Karales's photographs, has provided a foreword to the volume.
Brief description: Julian Cox is the founding curator of photography and chief curator for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. For more than a decade Cox worked with the photographs collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and then spent five years leading the photography program at Atlanta's High Museum of Art. His previous books include Julia Margaret Cameron: The Complete Photographs; Harry Callahan: Eleanor; Road to Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956-1968; and�The Portrait Unbound: Photographs by Robert Weingarten.
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What makes Karales's photos stand out is his ability to find the emotional core and humanity in the images, whether they are of seemingly ordinary activities, of tense moments fraught with danger, or of famous figures such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his family, to whom Karales had unparalleled access as a photographer. Cox provides a thorough chronicle of Karales's personal life, education, career, and involvement in the civil rights movement. The text is followed by 92 of his photographs, most from the march to Montgomery, that record a crucial period in the civil rights movement. Recommended for anyone interested in photojournalism and modern American history.
-- "Library Journal"