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Don Hogan Charles, Lauded Photographer of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 79 | The New York Times

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Don Hogan Charles, Lauded Photographer of Civil Rights Era, Dies at 79 | The New York Times

Niraj Chokshi, The New York Times



[dropcap]His[/dropcap] niece Cherylann O’Garro, who announced the death, said his family did not yet know the cause.

In more than four decades at The Times, Mr. Charles photographed a wide range of subjects, from local hangouts to celebrities to fashion to the United Nations. But he may be best remembered for the work that earned him early acclaim: his photographs of key moments and figures of the civil rights era.

In 1964, he took a now-famous photograph, for Ebony magazine, of Malcolm X holding a rifle as he peered out of the window of his Queens home. In 1968, for The Times, he photographed Coretta Scott King, her gaze fixed in the distance, at the funeral of her husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″]

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