Featured Source for May 2025: Tony Vaccaro
1 May 2025
akg-images is proud to represent Tony Vaccaro.
Michael 'Tony' Vaccaro (1922 - 2022), was an American photographer whose work covers a broad mixture of photojournalism, celebrities and fashion. His photographic career began on the battlefields of WWII with visual accounts of war and its immediate aftermath. He later photographed for Look, Life, Flair, and many other top magazines, building an extensive collection of portraits of some of the most noted people of his generation.
Tony has been honoured worldwide in numerous exhibitions and publications, and he received France's Legion of Honour on the fiftieth anniversary of the Normandy landings.
akg-images holds around 1,000 images from Tony Vaccaro, available for editorial use.
Enjoy this curated selection. You can see more of the collection on the akg-images website.
Portraits of Famous People
Jackson Pollock. Portrait in East Hampton, New York, USA Photo, 1953 AKG253930 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Joan Collins. Photo, 1971 AKG249646 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Gina Lollobrigida talking to a man at a dinner table. Photo, c. 1955 AKG218123 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Leonard Cohen in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1968. AKG5543724 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Portrait of Marcel Duchamp. Photo, 1951 AKG230641 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
William Somerset Maugham. Photo 1959 AKG230710 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Pablo Picasso in Mougins. Photo, 1968. AKG5543751 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro.jpg)
Georgia O’Keeffe holding a Painting, 1960. AKG5543747 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Fashion
Models in dresses from the Finnish fashion company Marimekko. - Photo, Finland, October 1965 (taken for the magazine "LIFE") AKG5543721 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
U,S, model Dovima in door frame, 1950s. AKG5543728 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Young woman sitting in a wicker beach chair. Photo, 1952 AKG207457 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro.jpg)
Young woman with headscarf in a convertible car. Photo, 1951 AKG3550198 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro.jpg)
Model wearing a two-piece swimsuit (photo taken with an infra-red camera for "Look" magazine). AKG3551158 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Model in a sleeveless summer dress posing in a bar. Photo, November 1956 AKG207544 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro.jpg)
Model wearing a long pleated dress, 1965 AKG3517480 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Model in bathing costume. Photo 1956 AKG207541 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Model wearing a white bathing suit and a pointy straw hat. Photo, 1950s, USA (taken with an infrared camera for the magazine "Look") AKG3551156 © akg-images / Tony VaccaroSecond World War
An American anti-aircraft gunner. (Luxembourg, after being liberated by the 1st US Army). Photo, October 1944. AKG182849 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Looking out from Hitler's "Berghof" in Berchtesgaden, 1945 AKG3118737 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
German prisoners of war defuse a bomb on Omaha Beach in Normandy (after the Allied landing on 6 June 1944) AKG182873 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Sherman M4 tank. Luxembourg, November 1944 AKG3118671 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Soldiers leaving destroyed Zerbst, 1945 AKG210816 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
GIs searching for mines. Luxembourg, November, 1944. AKG3118676 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
A GI being kissed by a newly-liberated Polish factory worker (in Kalbe, Saxony-Anhalt) AKG219143 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
US soldier killed in action (PVT Henry Tannenbaum of NYC). AKG182838 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Sergeant Cayne and prisoners. Hürtgen Forest, Germany, December 1944. AKG3118686 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Tanks and trucks of a US convoy in France. Photo, 1944 AKG3118662 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
U.S. soldier waving from the cockpit of a crashed German Luftwaffe machine (Pocking Airfield, Bavaria) AKG245769 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Handover of German soldiers and officers in Paramé (former municipality of Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany). Photo taken around August 10, 1944 AKG3697405 © akg-images / Tony VaccaroPost-War Germany
A soldier after his return home to Frankfurt am Main, 1946. AKG182938 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
An American plane coming in to land at Tempelhof airport. Berlin Airlift, August 1948 AKG182818 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Doll’s hospital in Frankfurt am Main: a little girl (daughter of a US officer) watches as her doll is being repaired (inscribed: “The doll is getting repaired at a Puppenklinik” AKG245472 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Allied aircraft on Celle airfield at night. Photo, September 1948. AKG224535 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
‘Care’ packages from America in temporary storage, Berlin Blockade. Photo, 1948AKG210862 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
German children waiting to taste Coca-Cola. Photo, 1948 AKG6166438 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Boy with bread. Photo, October 1948 (Ludwigshafen) AKG210798 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
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Post-war Italy
Young Italian peasant woman from Sepino, Molise, during the grain harvest. Photo, July 1949 AKG427343 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Drying pasta near Amalfi, 1946 AKG214070 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Young boy with grapes. Photo, no location, c. 1950s AKG186709 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
A horse among the ruins of Cassino, 1946. AKG214091 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Nuns in St. Peter's Square in Rome listen to Pope Pius XII. Photo, 1954 AKG3517491 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Young people with umbrellas on a street in Bonefro (Molise, Italy). Photo, c. 1950 AKG186724 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Gathering grapes in S.Italy / Photo 1946 AKG186694 Low Res
Venetien violinist. Photo, 1948 AKG186691 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Siena (Tuscany. Italy), Palio (Historical horse race in the Piazza del Campo). Members of one of the seven Contrade in their historical costumes. Photo, c.1950s AKG186782 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Bonefro: Images of Missing Persons. Photo. October, 1946 AKG250844 © akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
Italian countesses. Photo 1956 AKG427367 akg-images / Tony Vaccaro
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