The Past Like You Wouldn’t Believe - Wolfgang Wild, Digikult 2017
Channel: Kulturutveckling VGR
Date: 2017-05-12

Wolfgang Wild talks about his childhood desire to go back in time, how it led him to create the website Retronaut and to uncover a formula for making historic images go viral.

Wolfgang Wild is the creator of Retronaut – ‘the past like you wouldn’t believe’ – and described by the Financial Times as ‘hit records for archives’. Wild curated more than 30,000 images on Retronaut.com before licensing Retronaut to the US Site Mashable.com, where Retronaut’s daily capsules of strange and startling images were an immediate hit. With 250k Facebook fans and #20 on the Times list of ‘The 50 People You Should Follow on Twitter’, Wild has written three Retronaut books and curated Retronaut’s four-month 2016 exhibition of New York historic panoramas, on 5th Avenue, New York City.

Film by David Eric Nilsson (Graph Wizz Films)