Photo Journalism and War Photography

Henri Cartier- Bresson was a very important french photographer, considered the father of modern photojournalism.
He always belived that being in the right place and the right time could make perfect pictures.
Henri Carteir- Bresson is also very famous for inventing a new tecnique of photography The Decisive Momen.
The Decisive Moment is when you capture the instant action in photography, a moment that won't be easy to repeat, one second before or after and the picture would look different.
Bresson himself used to wait for hours in the same place, waiting for life to come.
In 1933 Bresson created one of the most important picture in the photojournalism world.

This photograph (on the side) it's called: Behind the Gare St. Lazare.
This picture really show the decive moment tecnique.
A man jumping into the unknown.
This picture is also very famous because many people identify the man in the picture as the symbol of Europe jumping into the unknown during war time.
Another important aspect of the Photojournalism is the War Photography.
War photography captured moments of executions, conflits, battles during a war.
There are two photographers really important during the World War II.
Eddie Adams who won the Pulitzer price for a pictures that shows an execution of a Vietcong in 1973.
The photographer himself said that the decisive moment that he press the shutter the bullet just hit the boy's head.
This photograph became a symbol of what was really going on in Vietnam during the war, I think this picture is kind a mirror of the truth.

Another important photo, worth to be remembered in the War photography's; is a picture of a Spanish soldier just being hit by a bullet.

This picture was taken by the Pulitzer price winner Roberto Capa.

Roberto Capa was also a soldier, but he loved photography.

During the war he used to keep a rifle in his hand and a camera on his neck.

Another important name worth to mention is Tony Vaccaro who is one of the best photograher during the II World War.

nowa days there many books about war photography.

We can also find was photography in newspaper, and TV.

We can find many war pictures at the present day.

Infact there are thousands of pictures taken during the war in Iraq and we got many also many shoots taken when the World Trade Center it is been attacked.

One of the most impressing photo of the 9/11 is been taken by Richard Drew; and it shows a man falling from the tower.

Photographers like Toni Vaccaro, Eddie Adams, brought shocking images to people the rest of the population.

Eddie Adams was the godfather of the war photography during the Vietnam, because his pictures could actually tell to all the people away from war, what was really happening in Vietnam.

From those pictures, we understood that to take those kind of shots, we don't need sofisticated camera, tripods or background lights, we could just use simple cameras to make impressive war photos.

Infact after Eddie Adams, many photographer decided to go to war and witness by wonderful pictures the horror of the war.