With the Guggenheim building celebrating its 60th anniversary this week, a gettyimagesgallery repost with their curator, shawn_waldron. ・・・ Tony Vaccaro is nothing if not adroit. He captured some of the most compelling and powerful photographs of the Second World War using an amateur camera smuggled to the front lines. After the war, he turned to reportage (but now with a Leica), followed by portraiture, landscape, and fashion. Vaccaro’s greatest skill, and the reason for his artistic success regardless of genre, is his innate ability to recognize the humanity in any subject. He was also born with buckets of charm and always trusts his instincts, two very good character traits for a photographer to possess. ⁣ ⁣ Fashion model Isabella Albonico entered Vaccaro’s studio in 1960 for a Look magazine hat shoot. When the editor pulled a unique three tiered construction by Sally Victor out of its box, Tony took one look at it and ordered everyone in a cab. Climbing out at the corner of Fifth A...