Photo Journalism Part Two

Robert Capa had two rules for photo journalism which where; First Rule- "Get Close" and the Second Rule- "Get Closer". Even though Robert Capa didn't have any army kit he still risked his life on the front line to get those shots, after the war and thoses shots came out more and more people started to understand just how awful the war actually was especially when pictures of young boys dead on the ground and blown up where shown to everyone, at the time more people would believe a picture rather than a painting and many people would have traded as many paintings as possible just for one picture.
Tony Vaccaro was also a war photographer but he was also a soldier so aswell as carrying around his camera he also had to carry around a standard army kit, Vaccaro's camera was a Argus C3 which wasn't the best camera especially when Capa had a Leica camera which was the better camera at the time but Vaccaro could get closer than Capa because he was a soldier and could get the images of them marching or he is there when the action kicks off. Before the images came out many people classed war as romantic so when the images came out some people were very shocked by what they where seeing, some of the photo's where classed as a desisive moment because there where pictures of the soldiers in the water and firing at people and they where there at the right time and they showed the men fighting for there country.
Tony Vaccaro developed pictures out there using some soldiers helmets as a way to develope the pictures and he left them out to dry on a tree but where soon destroyed because they showed images of dead GI's and the army thought the world wasn't ready for those images yet.