Background
James H. Karales was born on July 15, 1930 in Canton, Ohio, United States to a family of Greek immigrants.
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The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists to demonstrate the desire of African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote, in defiance of segregationist repression; they were part of a broader voting rights movement underway in Selma and throughout the American South. By highlighting racial injustice, they contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement.
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James H. Karales was born on July 15, 1930 in Canton, Ohio, United States to a family of Greek immigrants.
Although James Karales initially enrolled in Ohio University with the intention of majoring in electrical engineering, he switched his major to photography after watching his roommate in the darkroom. He graduated with a bachelor of fine arts degree in 1955, departing Ohio for New York City.
James Karales found work as a darkroom assistant for photo-essay photographer W. Eugene Smith at the Magnum photo agency, initially on a two-week assignment making prints for Smith's Pittsburgh essay. He would go on to work for Smith for two years, making more than 7,000 prints and developing expertise both in the darkroom and as a photo-essayist.
After leaving Magnum, James Karales produced his own photo essays, including works showing what life was like for the working citizens of Rendville, Ohio, a former stop on the Underground Railroad and one of the few integrated working communities in the United States. His Rendville photo-essay would draw the attention of Edward Steichen and led to a solo exhibition at Helen Gee's Greenwich Village gallery, Limelight.James Karales also drew attention from Look for the Rendville essay, and Look would go on to hire him in 1960 to cover and photograph both the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam. Karales worked for Look until the magazine closed in 1972; afterwards, he worked as a freelance photographer. Before he met Smith, he also created a photo-essay on the Greek-American community in his hometown of Canton, Ohio.