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Bob Adelman
American photographer
Robert Melvin "Bob" Adelman (October 30, – March 19, ) was an American photographer known for his images of the civil rights movement.
Career
Adelman used his background as a graduate student in applied aesthetics from Columbia University to forge close ties with leading figures of art and literature, including Andy Warhol and Samuel Beckett.
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After studying photography for several years under the tutelage of Harper's Bazaar art director Alexey Brodovitch, Adelman volunteered as a photographer for the Congress of Racial Equality in the early s, a position which granted him access to key leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, including Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr.
and James Baldwin. Adelman's work captured a decade of racial strife during the s, including portraits of Martin Luther King reciting his "I Have a Dream" speech, the fifty-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, and King resting in his casket after the assassination.
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