Anyone see this?
It’s an excellent HBO documentary about photographer Tony Vaccaro’s war experience. I only caught the last half of it and enjoyed it tremendously because it seemed extraordinarly well made on every level. They would probably have had enough material with Vaccaro’s eloquent recollection of harrowing events and his immense talent with a camera, but the documentary also includes scenes of him revisiting the places he’d been in the war, with comparisons of then-and-now photos and even reencounters with some of the subjects he’d protrayed and their recreation of photos he’d taken over 60 years earlier. But wait, there’s more… There’s an undercurrent of ethical musings that examines the role of war photographers and the dilemmas they face, such as being a soldier first and an artist second and the dichotomy between truth and beauty (staging of photos, respect for victims). The second link has more info and some of the images used in the documentary.