Much of Moore's landmark civil rights photographs were originally published in Life Magazine. In 1989, Black Star founder Howard Chapnick decided to enter Moore’s work in the first annual Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism, regarded as one of the most prestigious honors in the industry. Moore was named the winner and the resulting publicity sparked renewed interest in his work from the civil rights movement. He is a frequent lecturer about the era at universities and workshops.

For many years, he has been represented by Black Star and has had more than 100 covers for a variety of magazines. His photographs have appeared in most of the major magazines in the United States, Europe, Asia and South America including the Saturday Evening Post, Time, Fortune, Stern, Epoca, Manchete, National Geographic, Newsweek and Geo.

Moore covered civil rights for many years, largely for Life, and also photographed civil war in the Dominican Republic and political violence in Venezuela and Haiti. He made three trips to Vietnam photographing for a variety of magazines and in 1966, the Aviation/Space Writers Association presented him with an award for his Life Magazine photographs of the Vietnam air war.

He also has received many honors for his corporate/industrial photography as well as travel and calendar work. A partial list of his corporate clients includes Dupont, IBM, CBS-TV, 20th Century Fox, Hewlett Packard, Phillips Petroleum, Lufthansa Airlines and Price Waterhouse.

Moore's books include The Motherlode, a chronicle of the California Gold Rush country, now in its fourth printing by Chronicle Books, and Powerful Days, The Civil Rights Photography of Charles Moore, published in 1991 by Stewart, Tabori & Chang. A partial list of his many exhibitions includes The International Centre of Photography, New York City, The Smithsonian, Washington, DC, The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles, California, The Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, The Newseum, Arlington, Virginia and The George Eastman House, Rochester, New York.

Comments on the photographs of Charles Moore:

“The photographs of Charles Moore presented in this brilliant chronicle offer more than simple, visual accounts of the civil rights years . . . For those of us who remember the pictured events from personal experience, this book is a means by which to sharpen memories, to relive and revisit some of the most meaningful, terrifying and rewarding moments of our lives.”

Andrew Young, Civil Rights leader and former ambassador to the United Nations, in the forward to Powerful Days.

Moore's photographs. . ."helped to spur passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."

Jacob Javits, United States Senator.

"The photographs of Bull Connor's police dogs lunging at the marchers in Birmingham did as much as anything to transform the national mood and make legislation not just necessary, . . . but possible."

Arthur Schlesinger Jr., historian.

"Moore's powerful, simply composed, black and white news pictures serve well to remind us of the ferocity with which the desegregation battle was fought.

Bob Nandell, Des Moines Register.

"Charles Moore's historic photographs bring back the tragedy and triumph of the civil rights movement."

Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Examiner.

"Moore's pictures of the Birmingham dogs - teeth bared, lunging against their choke leashes, shredding the clothing of demonstrators - are probably the best known pictures of the Civil Rights era.

Matt Herron, ASMP Bulletin.

"The beat was hazardous duty, not unlike that of a war correspondent. Mr. Moore's stark, crisp photos of freedom marchers beset by police dogs and fire hoses . . . helped to shape the nation's conscience."

Susan Brownmiller, The New York Times Book Review.

Charles Moore was fearless. He was known as the cameraman at the point of danger, at the place where the rocks were being thrown and the billy clubs were being swung. He was always there.

Nicholas Von Hoffmann, The Daily Independent, London.