During World War Two Robert Capa was employed by Life magazine to capture images of the war happening. Unlike Capa, Tony Vaccaro was a soldier who was fighting in the war at the time, taking photographs was just a second part of the job for him. Clearly they both had different ways and capabilities of photographing the images as Capa was given the latest Leica camera to use where as Capa was having to use his own Argos C3 camera, allowing him to take 32 images at one time. However one similarity between the two of them is that they both managed to loose photographs that they had taken. Capa was under pressure from Life Magazine to have the photographs ready to be published in a 48 hour deadline so in order to do so he was forced to rush the developing process causing the film to melt, consequently loosing three out of the four roles of film. Vaccaro was also unfortunate enough to loose some off his pictures to the American government as they focused largely on American soldiers dying where as they wanted the oppositions death captured. America felt the world wasn't ready to see their own soldiers dying so the photos were seized from him.
The main difference between the picture and the video is the effect it has on the viewer. When you see the picture you are able to look at it for as long as you want to, you can study it, understand the photograph, imagine you are there, feel the emotion and understand the reality of the situation. When you watch the video you only see it for a split second, meaning you don't actually understand what is going on or the severity of the matter, you just watch the clip and let it go over the top of your head. the image just has a much bigger impact on people as it has paused that one decisive moment in time that is extremely shocking for many people, especially those connected to the Vietnam war.
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