Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photojournalist that took photos from the front line for life magazine. Capa's outlook on photojournalism was 'get close. then get even closer' Because Capa was a journalist he was free to drop in and out of battles whereas another wartime photographer Tony Vaccaro was an enlisted soldier who took photos whilst in the middle of battle. Capa was more well off than Vaccaro and was able to afford the Leica camera which was also used by the god father of photojournalism Henri Cartier-Bresson. whereas Vaccaro was a mear soldier and could not afford the best cameras like the leica camera. Vaccaro was most known for the fact whilst being on the front line during a fire fight he noticed a destroyed photoshop where he took the chemicals needed to produce the negatives for the photos he had already taken. he did this by using soldiers helmets and then hanging the photos on a tree over night. After the war, Capa continued to work as a combat-photographer by documenting wars such as the arab-israeli conflict in 1948. Capa co-founded magnum photography which was the first cooperative network for free-lance photographers. Henri Cartier-Bresson was also involved in creating this. Vaccaro stayed in Germany after he was discharged from the army to document post-war Germany and theyre re-building project, due to an accident in 1948 Vaccaro lost over 4000 of his World war 2 photographs. After this Vaccaro moved back to america and became a renowned Fashion and lifestyle for many american magazines.
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| this is a photo from tony vaccaro which shows a soldier after he has been shot. |
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| this is a photo from Robert Capa from the spanish civil war |
