Robert Capa/Tony Viccaro
- Describe the different circumstances that these photographers experienced as Photojournalists in WW2. Tony Viccaro was a G.I in the army so he saw the war from a different perspective from what Robert Capa saw it as. Capa was able to choose which battles to photograph unlike Viccarro he photographed war on a daily basis as a G.I where he saw more of the gory; where as Capa described the war as a romance but that may have been because he never saw it from the same view as a G.I. Tony Vaccaro landed at Omaha Beach with the 83rd US Army Infantry Division. Viccaro's camera was not as up to date as what Capa's was as he couldnt afford a leika at the time. Capa was the only photographer who went with the first wave of troops on d-day. Viccaro even developed his films on the battlefield. Robert Capa worked for an American magazine called 'Life'. He was a free photographer, meaning that the photographs he took did not need to be checked apart from the company he worked for. Alot of Viccaro's work was not allowed to be published or censored so it was destroyed maybe as he was a soldier on the front line he saw the war in more detail.
- Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs
<<< Robert Capa Tony Viccaro
Eddie Adams
Nguyen Ngoc Loan, South Vietnam's national police chief, executed a prisoner who was said to be a Viet Cong captain. AP photographer Eddie Adams won a Pulitzer Prize for this picture.
In the photograph it looks like the South Vietnamese officer is just holding a pistol to a viet cong guerilla soldier's head and hasn't fired but if you watch the video he has fired and the picture was taken when the bullet entered the right side of his head. This is known as a decisive moment. Eddie didn't know the man who pulled out the pistol but knew this was a moment to take a still shot as he snapped the picture the pistol trigger was pulled and the bullet was entering the brain. Eddie won a prize for that photograph. General Loan was wounded in action a few months later, and that’s when he was removed from his job and had to have his leg amputated and was taken to the states.
In the photograph it looks like the South Vietnamese officer is just holding a pistol to a viet cong guerilla soldier's head and hasn't fired but if you watch the video he has fired and the picture was taken when the bullet entered the right side of his head. This is known as a decisive moment. Eddie didn't know the man who pulled out the pistol but knew this was a moment to take a still shot as he snapped the picture the pistol trigger was pulled and the bullet was entering the brain. Eddie won a prize for that photograph. General Loan was wounded in action a few months later, and that’s when he was removed from his job and had to have his leg amputated and was taken to the states.
