Chapter 36 32 Robert Capa!

A funny photoshoot guy in GI costume. — Ingrid Bergman When I was a student in the Department of International Politics at Peking University, I was not a dedicated student.The calibers, rates of fire and firing methods of various artillery fascinate me far more than all kinds of awkward political vocabulary.In order to cope with the famously harsh Peking University exams, I had to follow other people's knees and run to the library.However, "the ones who go east are the same, but the ones who go east are different."The British "Jane's Weapon Systems Yearbook", "Jane's Ship Yearbook", and "Jane's Fighter Yearbook" have become my pets.The 14-volume "Pictorial History of the Second World War" in the "Time-Life" edition is especially unforgettable for me.I was shocked by the incomparable persuasive power of historical photos, so I doubted all the puzzling expositions in our textbooks, and I couldn't help but be impressed by the successors who used cameras to record history.

Soon, I found that in various versions of history books, there is often a line of small black words in the lower right corner of many thrilling war photos: Robert Capa (Robert Capa).Obviously, this is the author of the photo.I couldn't help but feel 20 percent curious.By chance, I saw this name again in the autobiography of Hollywood actress Ingrid Bergman.Bergman described Mr. Capa, with whom she had a romance, as "a funny photo-shooter in GI costume". After much effort, I finally found Capa's life experience in the pile of books.This old knight-errant was originally from Hungary, and his real name was Andrei. He was admitted to the political department of Berlin University at the age of 18, but when he graduated, the Nazi Party came to power. Horthy in Hungary followed the example of Germany in implementing fascism and persecuting progress. Young man, forcing him to leave Paris.Being poor and penniless, Andre had to make a living selling photos with a broken camera.But luck was bad, and despite working hard, his income was barely enough to make ends meet.

At this embarrassing moment, a little girl named Tarot fell from mid-air and willingly became the tramp's partner.Tarot is a big kid, claiming to be the photo dealer of the nonexistent "American photographer Robert Capa", and her impoverished boyfriend naturally becomes the darkroom worker of the mysterious photographer Robert Capa.The young couple was in a panic, but the photos were sold in batches at five times the previous price, francs and dollars poured in, and the fabricated "Robert Capa" became a mysterious figure who never showed up. In 1936, the Soviet Union succeeded in eradicating counter-revolutionaries and announced that it had entered socialism.During the October Revolution, Trotsky, who stood side by side with Lenin on the armored train and waved to the Soviet Red Army and was called "the only one who could organize an invincible Red Army within three months" by Lenin, now Became an "enemy of the revolution" and was expelled from the country.His image was erased from Lenin by Stalin.The socialist Soviet Union pioneered the use of darkroom technology to modify historical photos at will.

Trotsky was deported to Asia Minor and traveled to Northern Europe, tirelessly preaching his "permanent revolution theory" along the way.From deputy commander-in-chief of the revolution to politician in exile, Trotsky naturally became a hot spot pursued by the international media.But Trotsky hated photography as much as he hated tooth extraction. Whenever he gave a public speech, he had to expel all those who held the camera abroad before speaking.Photojournalists all over Europe were unable to capture the image of Torres.The editor-in-chief of the most famous "VU" magazine in Europe at that time offered a huge reward to the brave men in the world, and Jing went to the University of Copenhagen with his bare hands to listen to his brother Kanshan.

The speech was coming to an end, and the disarmed photographers hated their ability to kill dragons and had no way to take pictures. The editor-in-chief of "VU" was disappointed. Lie got in, pretended to dismantle a section of water pipe in public, and then reinstalled it clumsily. That night, the little girl Taro made a phone call to the bedroom of the editor-in-chief of "VU": "Boss, Mr. Capa has exclusively photographed Trotsky..." The editor-in-chief on Simmons jumped up: "Dark, little girl, Stop rambling! Let your dirty boy come to work with me!"

The dirty young man simply changed his name to Robert Capa publicly, took part in the Spanish Civil War with the arm of Tarot the imp, and started his career as a professional war reporter with a piece of "Death of a Soldier".To this day, people do not know which of the lovers this masterpiece came from.After the little girl Tarot died in the war, Capa published "The Spanish Civil War", and there was a line in black on the pages: "Dedicated to Tarot, she participated in the Spanish Civil War and stayed there forever." After this, Robert Capa bid farewell to Spain with tears in his eyes.After traveling to China, I interviewed the Taierzhuang War.In D-Day, Capa was part of the vanguard of the first three million Allied troops to land on Utah Beach in Normandy.

With the development of technology, Capa keenly foresees that future wars are becoming less and less suitable for photographic interviews: "Wars are like women, they are getting older and losing their strength." Nevertheless, for every contemporary war, he has his own It is necessary to drive in person.Capa said that if he failed to participate in the attack, "it would be like being imprisoned in the American Star Prison for five years, and he would not even be interested in the tryst of the porn star Lena Duanna." After all the modern warfare, the venerable Capa stepped on a land mine in the tropical jungles of Indochina.Just when his body was torn into pieces from bottom to top, he could still press the shutter instinctively. This photo is the famous "The Last World in Capa's Eyes".He was born penniless and died with nothing in his sleeves.Nobel Prize winner John Steinberg wrote in his elegy to his friend: "Robert Capa not only left a war chronicle, but also left a spirit." As Capa said throughout his life Saying: "If your photo is not good enough, it is not close enough."

Robert Capa only lived to be 40 years old and participated in five wars in his short life.Capa once said: "Those who died heroically before the victory came are the most outstanding, but the living people immediately forget them." What Capa pursued in his life is to let history always remember those who died in the Spanish Civil War. Ordinary soldiers, remember the GIs who were shot and fell on a Leipzig balcony towards the end of WWII... After two cups of yellow soup, I always have the illusion that I am the reincarnation of Capa, as if I have really experienced everything that Capa experienced, and the stinky sweat on my body also bears the unique thorn of the old goat that Capa only has. smell.At least one thing is true, we both entered the Department of Political Science and Economics of a famous university when we were 18 years old.Also, we both have the same narrow egos, as if only a camera could record history.