Tony Vaccaro, a champion photographer whose pursuit of beauty stemmed from years of childhoood abuse, died on Dec. 28 at the age of 100. The cause of death was complications from an ulcer surgery in ...

It’s not hard to understand why, in 1944, a young man with an eye for photography might want to join the official photographic ranks of the U.S. Army’s Signal Corps. As TIME explained that year, they ...

In this recent but undated photo of Tony Vaccaro. Amid the bleakness of the pandemic, some veterans still know how to win that 2020 war too Ñ spurious comparison or not. Vaccaro, 97, was thrown into ...

When Tony Vaccaro hit Omaha Beach days after D-Day, he carried a camera along with his rifle. Vaccaro documented the war on his own as he fought across France and into Germany as an infantryman. "I ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Private First Class Tony Vaccaro, of the 83rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, taught himself to take ...

The photos Tony Vaccaro snapped as a young man on the front lines of World War II are stunning in their bleakness: A face-down soldier, covered in new snow; a black explosion looming above a pair of ...

Tony Vaccaro photographed a world of beauty from a crucible of pain. He photographed World War II from a soldier’s eye, documenting its brutality and horror. After carrying his camera across ...

Anthony “Tony” Vaccaro, 77, of Reading, passed away peacefully on Veteran’s Day, Tuesday, November 11, 2014 in Country Meadows Assisted Living with his daughter by his side. He was the husband of the ...

Tony Vaccaro’s mother died in childbirth, and at a tender age he also lost his father to tuberculosis. By age 5, he was an orphan in Italy, enduring beatings from an uncle. As an American GI during ...