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Photographs that changed the world
改變世界的照片
Photography can be powerful because it both records and represents the world at the same time. It can turn the world into images and symbols of something better or worse; it can take us to places and show us things we never imagined existed before. Great photographs challenge our perceptions of the world and force us to reconsider how we see things. These four photographs stopped the world in their own way and made people hold their breaths for a few seconds as they began to take it all in.
攝影之所以強大，是因為它可以同時記錄和代表世界。它可以把世界轉化成比其本身更好或更壞的形象和符號；它可以帶我們去很多地方，展示我們之前從未想象過的存在著的東西。偉大的照片挑戰了我們對世界的看法，并迫使我們重新考慮看待事物的方式。這四張照片以自己的方式使世界停滯，讓人們屏息幾秒鐘，然后開始領會其內涵。
The photograph that raised the stakes
一張增加了新聞攝影風險的照片
"If your pictures aren't good enough," war photographer Robert Capa used to say, "you aren't close enough." Words to die by, yes, but the man knew of what he spoke. After all, his best shots were taken on the morning of June 6, 1944 when he landed alongside the first waves of infantry at Omaha Beach. Caught under heavy fire, Capa dove for what little cover he could find, then shot all the film in his camera, and got out just barely.
戰地攝影記者羅伯特·卡帕說過一句名言：“如果你的照片拍得不夠好，那是因為你離炮火不夠近。”說這種話，不是去送死嗎？沒錯，不過他清楚自己在說什么。畢竟，他最令人難忘的那組鏡頭就是在諾曼底登陸日（1944年6月6日）的早晨拍攝下來的，當時，他與第一批步兵一起登陸奧馬哈海灘。在猛烈的炮火中，卡帕好不容易找到一個小掩體，一頭扎過去，等拍完了相機里的全部膠卷才出來，險些把命丟了。
He escaped with his life, but not much else. Of the four rolls of film Capa took of the horrific D-Day battle, all but 11 exposures were ruined by a lab assistant, who melted the film in his rush to develop it.
他死里逃生，撿回了一條命，但除了那條命，帶回來的其他東西并不多。關于那場可怕的諾曼底登陸戰役，卡帕一共拍了四卷膠卷，但除了11張外，余下的全部被一個過于心急的助手給毀了——他手忙腳亂地沖洗膠卷，結果把膠卷融化了。
Unexpectedly, however, that same mistake gave the few surviving exposures their famously surreal look. More than 50 years later, director Steven Spielberg would go to great lengths to reproduce the look of that error for his D-Day landing sequence in his movie Saving Private Ryan.
但出乎意料的是，同樣的錯誤使僅存的幾張照片具有了超現實的外觀。50多年后，導演史蒂芬·斯皮爾伯格在拍攝《拯救大兵瑞恩》時，還不遺余力地再現這一“錯誤”所導致的視覺效果。
