Robert Capa - He's an Icon to every photo journalist now and then, the one photographer/journalist that worked for life magazine captured some of the most shocking, important and beautiful pictures until now, those pictures are still deep down in everyone's mind and soul. Capa used to say that to take a good picture you have to get close to action and he did he captured some of the most important decisive moments in war history deaths of a lot of men, explosions and moments that makes war ridiculous and bad. As well as Robert Capa there was A soldier photographer Tony Vaccaro that was even closer to the war and battles than Robert Capa ever got, but both of them were always being compared to each other Tony Vacaro didn't have equipment as good as Capa did but when your as close to battle as Tony was its just impossible not to get the best out of it.... The biggest loss in photography is that Robert Capa risked his life by going into D-Day landing battle and after he shot four films of pictures they were ruined in life magazines hq only 11 frames survived.
Photo Journalism during the WWII had a huge impact on ordinary people because at the time no one knew what was happening in Germany or France or anywhere war was going on. The pictures had quite an interesting impact because it was the only way for people to see what is going on down there, and that made quite an negative effect on everyone, you don't have to talk about WWII, you can take any war in example, when there was no cameras 200 - 300 yrs ago wars and battles were being painted, and their were being painted as this majestic and poetic thing, with a lot of colors and beautiful landscapes the only thing they were doing is making war look good and stylish. But when photojournalism was an option all the images were black and white they were blurry and damaged. Pictures captured deaths of soldiers who had families death of children and women, and that had huge impact on war itself because pictures was being published in magazines and books and during that time print media was very huge around the world so everyone seen it and seen it in a worst way possible.
Photo Journalism during the WWII had a huge impact on ordinary people because at the time no one knew what was happening in Germany or France or anywhere war was going on. The pictures had quite an interesting impact because it was the only way for people to see what is going on down there, and that made quite an negative effect on everyone, you don't have to talk about WWII, you can take any war in example, when there was no cameras 200 - 300 yrs ago wars and battles were being painted, and their were being painted as this majestic and poetic thing, with a lot of colors and beautiful landscapes the only thing they were doing is making war look good and stylish. But when photojournalism was an option all the images were black and white they were blurry and damaged. Pictures captured deaths of soldiers who had families death of children and women, and that had huge impact on war itself because pictures was being published in magazines and books and during that time print media was very huge around the world so everyone seen it and seen it in a worst way possible.
Tom good stuff. can you include some photos into this post? Also can you include some conclusion from your ideas on this type of photography. For example what was the effect of these instant snapshots have on our perception of war or for that matter life/reality?
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