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"Out of Focus" is a biography of Hungarian war photographer robert capa, with pictures and texts, which is quite a good book. It recorded all his participation in World War II, from the African battlefield to Italy, to the D-Day counterattack, until the end of the war. What he said is not only true, shocking, but also interesting. As a war photographer, he was the first person to rush to Normandy beach and took many real photos. (The casualty rate of the first batch of soldiers is 90%); As a person, after witnessing the scene of hell, he boarded the landing craft and sailed against the sea, becoming a "deserter".

Some stories in the book are also very interesting. Hemingway, whom he called "Dad", had a high degree of freedom during World War II and had his own "small army", sometimes "more ammunition than a regiment". Often pull one's own people to liberate small towns. In this book, Kappa also recorded a love, and it is a pair of twin triangles. Coincidentally, the role of robert capa was in the documentary of the BBC landing in Normandy yesterday, and all the stories about him are described in this book. One more thing, robert capa came to Vietnam voluntarily in 1954, and was struck by lightning and died at the age of 4 1 year.

I happened to see Kappa's book out of focus in the bookstore. Kappa people know a little, the originator of war photography. The introduction at the back of the book is written like this:

As the originator of battlefield photography, Kappa has a typical adventurer character. He once said: "The war correspondent's bet-his life-is in his own hands ... I am a gambler." And his more famous sentence is: "If your photos are not good enough, it is because you are not close enough to the gunfire."

Kappa, a Hungarian, is a pacifist, but he became famous for a photo showing a soldier about to fall after being shot. Capa is very handsome. The famous Hollywood movie star Bergman worships and pursues Kappa, but Kappa doesn't love her enough. The only woman Capa really loved, Pink Head, left him at dawn after drinking with him the night before the end of the war. Kappa was the only photojournalist who landed on Normandy beach with the vanguard. He took more than 100 photos, only 8 were left, and the rest were burned by the overexcited printer. Kappa died in Vietnam, and the moment he stepped on a mine, Kappa pressed the shutter for the last time in his life.

The book begins with the summer of 1942. The first sentence is that there is no need to get up early in the morning, because he received a job and a check when he had only five cents left. The last sentence of the book is that you don't have to get up early anymore, because the front page of the newspaper that day wrote in unusual bold letters: The war is over.

Kappa's writing is extremely refined, and there is not even any direct sorrow for the life that falls at any time around him. Looking through the book, the most emotional thing is that the number of pilots returning that day was one less, and they didn't play cards that night; Kappa can always tell where the front of the war is, and overcome all obstacles to appear there, taking the most valuable shots; Kappa was very calm and almost recorded the history around him with a lens. This calmness and even ruthlessness is the necessity of occupation, but it has seriously damaged Kappa's health, so that Kappa has been afraid of his family all his life and can only relax himself with wine and women.

Capa's humor is as black as his lens. On the second page of Out of Focus, after receiving the job and the check, Kappa decided to toss a coin to try his luck: "If it is positive, I will go to England even if I am accused of murder (note: because of Kappa's" enemy nationality ",this has brought him a lot of trouble in his journalist career); If it is negative, I will return the check and explain the situation to Collier. I threw a coin and it fell to the ground-it was tails. Then I immediately realized that I couldn't find the future in coins. I would keep and cash that check and go to England anyway. " At the end of the book, the only woman Capa ever loved, Pinhead, was a little haggard, but beautiful. I think I've won her back. I said I would shave, and then we would have breakfast together. When I was shaving, I heard her talking on the phone. When I walked out of the bathroom, Pink Head had put on her coat, makeup and glasses. She said, I want to kiss you. Then I went out. There are two bottles of milk and two newspapers in front of the door: the war is over and Pink Head has become someone else's bride.

Practice and humor are, of course, the qualities that frontline soldiers must have, because there is no other choice. Where to lie in the next second is the question of the next second, which has nothing to do with any thinking, but only with fate. Then, this second can only choose washing and humor.

But for Capa, he had a choice after the war. He chose adventure and battlefield. Adventure factors in nature and acquired adventures made him restless for a long time, and adventure became caffeine in his blood. Therefore, a bullet or mine doomed him, but it also made him great.

"Real men only like two things-danger and games." This is a bit classical, a bit chivalrous, a bit sad, but fascinating.

Out of focus. Good.