Photo Journalism part two, War and Photography.

There are three prominant photographers who put their lives on the line to photograph the wars going on a the time.First is Robert Capa  who with, among others, the french photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson formed Magnum Photos. He went front line during the Second World War in London ,North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris.His most famous pictures were those of the D-Day landings:of which only one of the four films sent back to publishing magazine "Life" surviveed after a dark room incident. He  thought War was romantic a sentiment not shared by the Photographer/Soldier Tony Vaccaro who stayed in Germany in the aftermath of the war to document the reconstruction of the country after it's traumatic time. Capa did not, he then went to Hollywood to film a Hitchcock film.

is best known for his photos taken in Europe during 1944 and 1945 and in Germany immediately after World War 2. After the war, he became a renowned fashion and lifestyle photographer for American magazines. He thought war was anything but romantic after expiriencing it in is most raw form and seeing the shear destruction, pain and aftermath such as in the picture below.