photojournalism

Robert Capa

Robert Capa was a photographer for the life magazine he also did photography in the world war during 1939 and 1945. Photojournalism is usually refered to old still images but in some cases it is also reffered to video used in broadcast journalism. 

Robert Capa pictures are from the "golden age" photojournalism 1930 to 1960. In the early 1950s, Capa traveled to Japan for an exhibition associated with Magnum Photos. While there, Life magazine asked him to go on assignment to Southeast Asia, where the French had been fighting for eight years in the First Indochina War.

Capa is known for redefining wartime photojournalism. His work came literally from the trenches as opposed to the more arms-length perspective that was the precedent previously. He was famed for saying, "If your picture isn't good enough, you're not close enough."

Aswell as a photographer he was a photo journalist. Some of his famous pictures are called...............

The falling soldier was taken on the 5th September 1936 

The Magnificent Eleven was taken on the 6th June 1994

http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html

  

Tony Vaccaro 

Soldier Tony Vaccaro is also recognized as one of the pre-eminent photographers of World War II. His images taken with the modest Argus C captured horrific moments in war, similar to Capa's soldier being shot.vaccaro is also known for developing his own images. 

All shot in the front rows of the war. That was the deal. He had to be among the soldiers who first came to places and could take photos in return.     

 

         ‘ My approach was this: I said to myself, “Tony, don’t worry about how good the picture is going to be under difficult conditions and light. Take it, no matter what. If the eye sees it, take it.”

(quote) http://www.military-history.org/articles/war-photographers/tony-vaccaro-war-photographer.htm

The kiss of liberation

The German soldier returns home

Eddie Adams

Was a war photographer was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and his coverage of 13 wars.

One of his assignments was to photograph the entire Demilitarized Zone from end to end immediately following the war. This took him over a month to complete. The picture below shows a Vietnam person shooting a prisoner which is not right unless they've been put on trial this shows contraversy.

When we compare the video to the picture we see more in the still image rather than the footage this is because when you watch the video you just get that split second of the man shooting the prisoner it is fast and sudden. Where as when we look at the image we see more because you can just look at the picture and see the emotion on the prisoners face because its a still image.

Below is a ink of when Eddie Adams talk about " The SAIGON EXECUTION PHOTO" 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv11KilBpHQ