- Describe the different circumstances that these photographers experienced as Photojournalists in WW2
- Find and upload to your blog some work of theirs
Eddie Adams
- Describe the difference between the video footage and the photograph of the "Execution"
Remember to get a Merit grade
You will need to cover the above evidence in sentences/paragraphs and not as answers to the questions and then with you own thoughts and arguments discuss, what makes Photojournalism a reliable/unreliable style of photography
To get Distinction grade
You will need to cover the merit question and then apply this definition to another example that you come up with yourself E.g. Modern approaches to photo gathering at news events such as crowd sourcing, twitter etc. Are these more effective?
- Describe the different circumstances that these photographers experienced as Photojournalists in WW2
Robert Capa
- Robert Capa was a Hungarian war photographer and photojournalist
- He covered five different wars, these being:
- the Second Sino-Japanese
- War World War II across Europe
- the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and
- the First Indochina War.
Robert Capa was a war photographer who hated war, he once said;
"the war photographers most fervent wish is for unemployment"
In the many different wars that Capa witnessed he captured a
In these conflicts Capa captured an astonishing range of experiences, from both frightful images from the frontline at the battle of Normandy, to the celebrations of the Liberation of Paris, and from the effects of war on civilians to soldiers who are left dead in the wake of destruction. Effected by the monstrosities that he witnessed first-hand, Capa is reported to have said he would stop reporting on war and that he never believed in another conflict after the Second World War. However, he continued to report on conflicts until, sadly, he was killed in 1954 in Vietnam, stepping on a landmine during his reportage of the First Indochina War.
"the war photographers most fervent wish is for unemployment"
In the many different wars that Capa witnessed he captured a
In these conflicts Capa captured an astonishing range of experiences, from both frightful images from the frontline at the battle of Normandy, to the celebrations of the Liberation of Paris, and from the effects of war on civilians to soldiers who are left dead in the wake of destruction. Effected by the monstrosities that he witnessed first-hand, Capa is reported to have said he would stop reporting on war and that he never believed in another conflict after the Second World War. However, he continued to report on conflicts until, sadly, he was killed in 1954 in Vietnam, stepping on a landmine during his reportage of the First Indochina War.
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