James H. Karales Photographs, 1955-2005 and undated.

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Karales, James H. James H. Karales Photographs, 1955-2005 and undated.

James H. Karales Photographs, 1955-2005 and undated.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/166268493

Collection documents the life and career of this 20th century American photojournalist. The majority of the images in the collection originated from Karales' documentary work for Look magazine during the 1960s, and are divided into series named for the locations or subjects: Rendville, Ohio, a declining coal mining town and one of the first racially integrated towns in Appalachia; Vietnam, where Karales documented many scenes from the Vietnam War, and the largest series in the collection; the Lower East Side, New York City; and the Logging Series, where Karales documented the Pacific Northwest logging industry's practices and culture. Karales also shot many images of individuals and events of the Civil Rights movement during the 1960s, housed in three inter-related groups: the Martin Luther King Series; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Series; and the Civil Rights Series. A number of Karales' images were adopted as visual icons of the U.S. civil rights movement, and were - and still are - widely reproduced. Publications where Karales' works appeared include LOOK, LIFE, SATURDAY REVIEW, PAGEANT, CORONET, POPULAR PHOTOGRAPHY, Time-Life books, and encyclopedias. Karales also produced photographs for corporate annual reports. His work is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The collection does not include Karales' photojournalistic work from East Germany (1970), or Gheel, Belgium (1961). Formats in the collection include contact sheets, which serve as a thumbnail guide to almost all of the prints and negatives in the collection; proof prints and exhibit-quality prints of various sizes; negatives, which are closed to research use; and slides. All images are in black-and-white. There is also a small group of supporting materials in the Manuscript and Printed Materials Series and the Audiovisual Materials Series that includes biographical documents such as Karales' curriculum vitae; Karales' essays on photography and teaching; publicity for exhibits and other events; correspondence with publishers; and clippings, magazine layouts, and other materials related to Karales' published work. The most recently dated item is an audiocassette of remarks on Karales' life and works made by Sam Stephenson at the opening of an exhibit of Karales' work at the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.

6021 items (9.5 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library