Photojournlism war

Robert Capa-  He was a hungarian war photographer and a photojournalist who covered five different wars. He originally wanted to be a writer but found work in photography in berlin and grew to love the art. He first photographed for colliers weekly but soon switched to life when colliers fired him. Capa was a photogrpaher who could dip in and out of war avoiding conflict if he wanted to. in 1947 he co-founded magnum photos in paris with David Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and William Vandivert. This was the first cooperative agency for worldwide freelance photographers.  

Tony Vaccaro- Vaccaro is an american photographer who is most famous for his photos taken in europe during 1944-1945 and in German straight after world war ll. After the war he became a renowned fashion and lifestyle photgrapher for U.S magazines. He was a soldier who faught in world war 11. during his time fighting in the war he also took time to photograph some of the moments he witnessed.  

Comparison- Tony vaccaro and Robert Capa's photographs are quite similar however have many differncences. Tony vaccaro's pictures were taken after battle as he was also a soldier who was fighting in the war and his main priority was to fight. Whereas Robert capa could take photots during the war as he was not a solider and was souly there to take photographs. Some beleive that Robert Capa's photographs were staged. 'the falling solider' is said to be fake by some people. some beleive this because the scenery in the photographs photos are very different.