From Robert Fenton to Robert Capa

After reading about some photos works of Fenton, Brady, Gardner and Capa, we find some similarities and differences.

Similarities:

• They were photographers of war.
• All of four photographers had played very  important roles on  the history of art and photography.
  They had contributed their works to show people how cruel the war was.
• Gardner and  Brady’s photographs had similar style. I think one of reasons is that Gardner have worked for Brady for several years.

Differences:

• Fenton,  Gardner, and  Brady had a similar style of photography, while Capa's was different from them.
• All of the photographers were photojournalists of war, however, Gardner, Fenton and Brady focued more on a rosy future, they missed the detail of the war. Capa showed the true war to us.
• Similar with Capa, Brady had taken many photographs of dead soldiers. However, Capa was closer to the war and he exposed the real face of the war.
• Gardner and Brady just took photos about those horrible scenes on the postwar, while Capa was different, he distrituted himself into the war. So his photographys were more real.