The American photographer of Italian origin Tony Vaccaro has died in New York. His children reported it on Friday, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. He is considered one of the best known documentary photographers. Vaccaro was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1922. His Italian parents moved back to their native region of Molise in southern Italy in 1926, where Vaccaro grew up.
Vaccaro documented World War II and the years after with his recordings. Vaccaro’s work includes thousands of photos he took after the end of World War II of the slow rapprochement between the German and American occupiers. “Der Spiegel” described him as “an unusual witness to a dramatic moment”.