Robert Capa & Tony Vaccaro

 Robert Capa/Tony Vaccaro

Robert Capa worked with magazines to publish pictures, he worked in Hollywood after the war where as Tony Vaccaro was concerned about the war by being a soldier. Tony Vaccaro instead of sending photos off, had to develop photos on the battlefield by using objects around him, such as helmets ect. to hold chemicals and then placed the photos inside for them to develop. Robert Capa worked for life magazine, he was hired by the magazine to take photos of the war, this meant he had more protection than Tony Vaccaro as soldiers were looking after him whilst they fought. He would then send the photos back to the magazine where they would develop and publish them. Tony Vaccaro photographed whilst actually fighting in the war, this indicates he collected first hand evidence of how the war actually was where as Capa had a decision, if he wanted to go to war to photograph he could however if he was not up for it, he didnt have to. 

Execution in the photos allowed America to see what was really happening. They gave evidence of getting executed without trial and how citizens were being treated unfairly.The photo gives the better impression to the audiences because it captures the moment as it is, it shall remain forever and never get changed. The video footage is bad however it gives you a couple a of seconds to see so you cant picture what actually happened. I believe photojournalism is a reliable style of photography a it captures the moment. This helps us understand the situation from the facial expressions and body language in the images. People however could argue as something could have happened before the photo. Whatever is happening, we don't know if the violence is provoked or not, the video and the photo do not give any reason to show it is or is not. In the video we cant see a full frontal view of the man being shot however from Eddie Adams's photo we can see a lot of what was happening between these two men. The photos were more affective by staying in peoples minds. They were hard to forget and people were more likely to remember photos then actual video footage. Americas response was different, the execution happened right in front of American Television and Eddie Adams camera however people in the war were so used to seeing innocent people getting killed that they didn't have much of a opinion on it whereas this was new to Americans.

Eddie Adams captured the photo below and in interviews he expressed how he 'wasn't out to hurt anybody' but he just wanted people to understand the circumstances that people were having to face whilst being in the war. He said in a interview before he took the photo, he thought that the colonel was going to just threaten the man. However as he pulled the pistol out of his pocket and placed it next to the victims head, Adams decided to take a photo as he thought at this point that it wasn't just a threat. Showing how unpredictable the war and the people involved were.

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