Famous American photographer Tony Vaccaro has died at age 100. He is best known for his images of WWII and for shooting fashion and lifestyle for American magazines.
“With a heavy heart, we like to inform you of [the] passing of Tony Vaccaro last night,” his family wrote in an Instagram post published on December 29th. “At his home with his family by his side. Tony wanted to reach 100 more than anything and he did. After his big birthday he told us, ‘Now I can rest.’
“Tony loved people more than anything and saw the best in everyone. He would wake up in the morning saying ‘What a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky.'”Vaccaro was born Michelantonio Celestino Onofrio Vaccaro on December 20th, 1922, in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, to immigrant Italian parents. In 1943, Vaccaro joined the United States Army, serving in Europe during World War II. Although he had initially tried to join the Army Signal Corps as a combat photographer, showing his high school photography to be accepted, the 21-year-old was deemed too young and inexperienced. He instead became a private in the 83rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army, seeing combat in France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Assigned to be a scout, Vaccaro was still able to utilize his skill with a camera and document his unique perspective of the world war. He would go on to
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