Seducing Ingrid Bergman — Chapter 10

1. 1. Robert Capa landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, under heavy fire, and nearly all his photographs were ruined by a darkroom technician overheating the negatives.
2. 2. Exactly one year after D-Day, Capa met Ingrid Bergman, which he considers the best day of his life, contrasting with the worst day of D-Day.
3. 3. Capa pawned his cameras to be with Ingrid, but she was appalled and insisted he retrieve them, equating it to her giving up acting.
4. 4. Capa's girlfriend Gerda died in the Spanish Civil War; he learned of her death while sitting in a barber's chair, and she asked about her camera as she lay dying.
5. 5. Capa suffers from nightmares and PTSD, waking in terror and drinking to cope, but Ingrid tries to exorcise his demons by pouring away his whisky and asking him to love her.
6. 6. Irwin Shaw warns Ingrid that Capa is everyone's best friend and only feels alive when photographing corpses, and that his attachment to Gerda led to her death.
7. 7. Ingrid feels trapped in her marriage to Petter, a brain surgeon who treats soldiers, and struggles with the pressure to return to him while falling for Capa.
8. 8. Capa believes war photography is a way to take a stand and feel history moving, even if it means risking his life, and he cannot imagine photographing other subjects.