Robert Capa and Tony Vaccaro

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Robert Capa was a Hungarian War Photographer and Photojournalist who covered five different wars: The Spanish Civil War, The Second-Sino Japanese War, World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the First Indochina War.
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Robert Capa's Grave Marker Amawalk Hill Cemetery
He worked for Collier's Weekly, before switching to Life Magazine after being fired from Collier's.
He risked his life, and had a reputation for capturing reality. His most famous and globally recognizable quote was "Get close, Get closer".
He was born in Budapest on the 22nd October 1915, and died in Thai Binh, Vietnam on May 25th 1954 at 40 years of age.






Hemmerden Burning Soldier
Tony Vacarro (Full Name: Michelantonio Vaccaro) was born 22nd December 1922, and is well known for being a GI Photographer. He always had a camera to record the war from a soldiers stand point. He used an Argus C3 camera, which was a low-priced rangefinder camera mass-produced in 1939. He 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 U.S. magazines.
His most famous picture is of a soldier who escaped an explosion in a tank, but died due to being completely alight from the flames. Vaccaro documented this by taking pictures, watching him burn.

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Henri Cartier-Breeson

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Henri Cartier-Bresson is famous for taking decisive photographs. He did this by finding the perfect location and waiting for life to come, and that is when he would take the photograph. He knew if he waited long enough, the perfect opportunity would be visible. His work is significant because he is the Founding-Father of Photojournalism, he was one of the very few people to own a Leica Camera, and he was able to do so because he was from a rich family. His work has been regarded as some of the best examples of decisive photography.

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Introduction

I'm Ben, I use my phone (Blackberry Q5) to take Pictures.
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I like to look at photographs of a singular item, models and landscape shots.
I hope to gain more knowledge of using Photoshop to edit/manipulate photographs.

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