Robert Capa was born October 22nd 1913 and died may 25th 1954, he was a Hungarian photojournalist who took the most famous pictures of the decisive moment. Capa's pictures brought fame, reality and an understanding of the war, people were shocked to see that a photographer would risk his life just to get a good picture. Capa unlike Tony Vaccaro could drop in and out of conflict.
Tony Vaccaro
Tony Vaccaro was born 20th december 1922. He was a soldier in WW2 but also took pictures of the war in progress, he took the best pictures of the war, some were very graphic but would have been sensored before reaching the public. Vaccaro took the best pictures of WW2 because he was so close to the action, even more close then Capa would have been. He always had his camera on him as well as the standard army equipment for instance; a gun. Unlike Henri Cartier-Bresson, Vaccaro couldnt offord a leica camera so used and argos C4 however towards the end of the war he was able to get a cheap leica. Vaccaro found the ruins of an old camera store and found some of the chemicals used when developing pictures, he decided that he was going to develop his own pictures. He did all the neccisary steps and then hung the pictures on a nearby tree, went to sleep and the next morning they had appeard.
Both Photographers captured important close up and personal pictures. They realise that there is more then meets the eye and you can not trust pictures as they don't show the truth. However Rodger Fenton showed that there is an alternative to being in the right place at the right time. There was no dead bodies or shoting soldiers in his picture but it still shows the devistation of the war.
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