Photojournalism (War)

Tony Vaccaro and Robert Capa were both photojournalists that took photographs during the war, however they were both very different photographers. Tony Vaccaro was a soldier in the second world war and was a photographer saa secondary part of his job. Tony took pictures of people in the war that were dead or dying and took images of the real war, the war that was not hidden by magazines. As a result to his images being so real and uncensored a lot of them ended up being "deleted", by the American Military because it showed their own American soldiers dead instead of the enemy which is what people wanted to see. Tony Vaccaro used a Argus C3 camera to take his images of the war, at the time the American Military used the Speed-Graphic cameras to take their images however Vaccaro used the Argus C3 because he could fit 32 shots into the camera which meant that he could take 32 images of the war whereas the Speed-Graphic could only take two pictures at a time.

Robert Capa was also a war photographer however his images were different to Tony's because Capa believed that war was a romantic and glamorous thing, this meant that a lot of his images showed the war in a completely different way, a more censored way than Tony's did. Robert Capa also had images "deleted" but it was not a deliberate act, it was an accident by the company Life Magazine, they were in such a hurry to get these images out for the public that they ruined them by developing them too quickly. Another reason why Capa was different to Vaccaro was because Capa was employed to go into the war by a private company called Life Magazine. Life magazine employed Capa to take images of the war, and as a result Capa never really saw the war for what it really was meaning that Capa and Vaccaro had very different perspectives of war.

Robert Capa and Tony Vaccaro also used very different cameras during the time of taking the war images, Robert Capa used a Leica camera which was very expensive at the time of the war and as a result Tony Vaccaro resulted to using a Argus C3 camera.

Eddie Adams was a photographer during the Vietnam War. During this time he took a very famous image of an execution of a prisoner that happened so suddenly and quickly but he managed to capture the image just as the bullet hit the prisoners head, this image was famous because it showed everyone what was going on in the war and how real it actually was. There was a video clip and an image of this decisive moment, but people find that the image was much more effective than the video. I believe this is the case because in the video you see it all happen, you see the man being shot the shock from everyone around him. The image captures the decisive moment, the moment in which the soldier decides to shoot the prisoner dead on the spot without hesitation, that is why the image is much more effective than the video, is because it captures that split moment that we can't see with out human eyes.