During his time in Europe serving as a front line infantryman during World War II, Tony Vaccaro shot over 8,000 photographs. He captured all aspects of war, developing his own films by moonlight in his helmet. After the war Tony started a twenty-eight year career freelancing for most major publications at the time such as Harper's Bazaar, Newsweek, and Life. Rather than working with intricate props and a team of assistants, Tony relied on natural light and settings and on himself alone. With unprecedented access to many of the greatest personalities of the twentieth century, kings and queens, presidents and popes, writers and actors, artists and scientists, Tony's archive includes unique portraits of sitters including John F. Kennedy, Enzo Ferrari, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Georgia O’Keeffe.