Robert Capa and Tony Vaccaro

 

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.

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.