James H. Karales (July 15, 1930, Canton, Ohio – April 1, 2002, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) was an American photographer and photo-essayist best known for his work with Look magazine from 1960 to 1971.
[4] 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.
[2] Karales also drew attention from Look for the Rendville essay, and Look would go on to hire him[2] in 1960[4] to cover and photograph both the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam.
One of Karales's first assignments for Look sent him to Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee headquarters in Atlanta in 1960, where he photographed members undergoing passive resistance training.
[1][7] Later, he documented Dr. King's family life after being given unprecedented access in 1962–63, publishing photographs showing Dr. King explaining to his daughter Yolanda why they could not go to an amusement park[8] and interacting with other noted figures, including Rosa Parks and Jackie Robinson.