Tony Vaccaro

Tony Vaccaro  http://photocsc.blogspot.co.uk

Portraits were originally reserved for the wealthy and important people . this was because the materials needed to make the pictures (paints, canvases etc.) were expensive so to make them you would need to be able to pay the price of the painter. when the camera was introduced this took away the expense of the Portrait because it was quicker and cheaper to take pictures because you did not need expensive paints and the subject didn't need to stand still ,with this more people became Portrait photographers giving birth to a wide range of different styles one of witch being tony vaccaro a war photographer turned  Portrait photographer.

tony vaccaro born December 20, 1922 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania is an  is an American photographer who is best known for his war photography documenting the second world war.  when he returned he worked for Life and Look before joining the magazine Flair.

In your posts you will need to discuss  the journey that Portraiture has taken over its' history. For example the movement from Rich and Powerful people having expensive portraits made for them to the works of Portraiture photographers depicting the inner conflicts and catching their subjects in moments when they are least prepared. 

Robert Capa/Tony Viccaro

Robert Capa/Tony Viccaro

The two photographers had similar but different situations when photographing the war.Tony Viccaro took photos while being a solder in the war and took drastic and graphic photos with little regard for his own life, one of these photos being a man being burned to death in front of a tank which had been blown up.In addition to this tony had to develop his photos on the battlefield using solder helmets as a container for the chemicals all the while avoiding gunfire.As opposed to this Robert Capa was a photojournalist hired by 'Life' magazine to take pictures of world war two, he took photos of the war while in the bunkers with the solders giving somewhat protection to him and then once he had taken enough and good enough quality photos he would send them back to the magazine where they would develop and publish them,this made capa  quote the war as being romantic. Both of the photographer suffered some censorship of their photographs, with Tony Viccaro being told he could not showed some of his photos because they featured dead G.I soldiers and some of Robert Capa's photos being destroyed because the magazine rushed to get them developed to meet the deadline and were subsequently melted by the chemicals. 

 
Robert capa                                                    Tony Viccaro

Execution

The execution photo is a defining photo because it showed the American public what was happening in Vietnam and made them demand that something be done about it , also showed that they were breaking the geneva convention what stated the prisoners of war were in-titled to proper housing and food.There are very lots of differences between the footage and the photograph taken of the execution.One of the main differences is that with the footage there is not such an impact , this is because the man is shot and left in the space of ten seconds meaning that the viewer would see the film and and would be shocked but not affected very much because the image would be gone before they had time to full register it.However the picture would have a higher impact because the viewer could stare at the picture for as long as they like and full register the facial expressions of both the general and the man being shot. 

 
the photo of the extinction