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James Karales

BIO

James Karales graduated with a BFA in photography from Ohio University in 1955. That same year, his portfolio secured him an assistantship to W. Eugene Smith, who was then printing his Pittsburgh photographs. Karales continued photographing his own projects while honing his printing skills under Smith’s tutelage. He had two big breaks in 1958, when Edward Steichen bought some of his Rendville pictures for the Museum of Modern Art and Helen Gee exhibited the Rendville photographs at the Limelight Gallery in Greenwich Village. Karales became a staff photographer at Look magazine in 1960, and for the next eleven years traveled the world as a photojournalist. The Village Voice described Karales’ prints as having “the weight of history and the grace of art.” In 1965, Karales recorded the Selma to Montgomery March as scores of people walked for 54 miles in protest. The New York Times called his Civil Rights images, “a pictorial anthem of the civil rights movement.” When Look folded in 1971, Karales went independent and was criticized for being too modest. But that trait may be the secret appeal of his work. In May-June 2009, Rebekah Jacob Gallery installed a blockbuster exhibition-1968: Controversy and Hope/Iconic Images by James Karales- that focused on Karales’ photojournalism from the Civil Rights Era, Vietnam, the Lower East Side, and Rendville, Ohio.

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