Girl in famous photography station

Wang Xiaoting's photographic work "China Baby"

Do you remember this photographic work? It seems that you can find the shadow of this photo in your middle and high school exams and textbooks. This photo named "Baby China" was once mistaken for evidence of the Nanjing Massacre. In fact, this highly infectious work was shot by China photographer Wang Xiaoting during the bombing of Shanghai South Railway Station, and this photo is regarded as the best news work shot in the United States during 1855- 1960.

During the period of 1937, this photo was viewed by 65438+300 million people, and American society was filled with indignation. Even the President of the United States came out to condemn the actions of the Japanese army, because there were no military facilities near the Shanghai South Railway Station at that time. On the surface, Japan argued that it was a mistake to bomb the plane, because they mistakenly thought that they saw the mobilized China army on the platform, and privately offered a high reward to Wang Xiaoting, forcing Wang Xiaoting to do so.

In fact, it was later proved that the photo was actually posed, and they also specially photographed a crying baby standing on the platform of the railway station, which became one of the most important sophistry evidences of Japanese right-wingers. However, although the child was brought from other places, the scene of the child crying, the blood and mud on his body, and the ruins of the railway station in the background are not fake at all. The Japanese really bombed the Shanghai Railway Station, which was a civilian area at that time.

The picture on the left shows Wang Xiaoting.

Photographer Wang Xiaoting is known as the originator of news photography in China. At that time, most of the photos of the battle of Songhu came from this photographer. In order to get first-hand information, he even went deep into the trenches of the national army. For example, in the four-row warehouse, people can see Xie Jinyuan and other soldiers fighting in the distance, and they can also see Wang Xiaoting? Weapons? Do they have cameras? A bloody battle? .

Wang Jianlong, his son, recalled in his later years that his father hung four or five cameras every day and ran around in various war zones of the Battle of Songhu. Sometimes he was very excited, and sometimes he was very depressed, because he could do nothing when he saw patriotic soldiers falling around him, and even caused unnecessary casualties.

Wang Xiaoting did not leave much trace in history, except that he died in Taiwan Province Province in 198 1, but his works became important evidence to prove the Japanese invasion of China, and Wang Xiaoting was also called? A photographer who records hell? .