Photo Journalism Part: 2 (War Photography)

Endre Ernő Friedmann or Robert Capa as he bacame known, he was a  Hungarian combat photographer and photojournalist who covered five different wars, from  Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War, he also documented the course of World War II in London, he also was at the battle of Normandy.

Roberts motto on was 'get close. then get even closer', Robert was able to free to drop in and out of battles, to take photos, where another war time photography, Tony Vaccaro was enlisted as a soldier and could not just drop in and out of battles, so he had to take photos under fire, and develop his photos when he got back to base camp, he use to take chemicals from the boomed out citys camera shops and mix them in his helmet back at camp.

The differance between these two photography is not that they were non-soldeirs and soldiers, the differance was there camears, where Robert Capa had a Leica camera, also used by the god father of photojournlism Henri Cartier-Bresson, where as Tony was a mear soldier and could not afford the best cameras like the leica camera

  After the war, Capa continued to work as a combat-photographer by documenting wars such as the arab-israeli conflict in 1948. Capa co-founded magnum photography which was the first cooperative network for free-lance photographers.