Tony Vaccaro

Michelantonio Celestino Onofrio Vaccaro was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, on December 20, 1922, to Italian immigrant parents.

With the outbreak of World War II, Vaccaro moved back to the United States in order to escape military service in Italy.

[citation needed] His usual position as a scout provided him with the opportunity to take photographs[4] with the Argus C3 compact 35mm rangefinder camera that he was adept at using.

Vaccaro stayed in Germany, where he obtained a job first as a photographer for Audio Visual Aids (AVA) stationed at Frankfurt, and then with Weekend, the Sunday supplement of the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes.

Tony Vaccaro premiered at the Boston Film Festival on September 22, 2016[10] where it won the award for "Best Story",[11] and aired on HBO on November 14.

Tony & Santi had its World Premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and received critical acclaim.

In 2022, the American Battlefield Trust produced and released a short video on Vaccaro and his photographs from World War II.