{"id":5354422,"date":"2019-10-11T15:51:05","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/?post_type=photographer&#038;p=5354422"},"modified":"2019-10-11T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T15:51:06","slug":"hans-wild","status":"publish","type":"photographer","link":"https:\/\/www.life.com\/photographer\/hans-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Hans Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote id=\"single-block_5da09b32a8dfd\" class=\"single-image \">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5354447 desc=\"Asset ID: 1217842. \" caption=\"Hans Wild with his camera. (Photo by Hans Wild\/The LIFE Images Collection)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/11154152\/1217842-e1570808641259-758x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Hans Wild with his camera. (Photo by Hans Wild\/The LIFE Images Collection)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Hans Wild with his camera. (Photo by Hans Wild\/The LIFE Images Collection)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A failed bookkeeper and avid tinkerer, Hans Wild (1914-1969) started at LIFE in the London darkroom. When Nazi bombs started falling, he jumped to action, taking pictures of the fresh and shocking ruins. At times he would pass himself off as a doctor to get close to the scene, only to find that the censors killed all his shots. \u201cI was taking pictures by the fires&#8217; light and getting singed, soaked and scared,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The scares came when ardent and very nervous Home Guards tried to break my cameras and bayonet me, and when sheltering crowds thought I was a spy.&#8221; Wild&#8217;s friendliness got him out of many scrapes, and the night typically ended in a pub. He noted that the excitement of working those stories for the magazine was \u201cenough to compensate for stories on an Average family.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adapted from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-LIFE-Photographers-Editors\/dp\/0316097934\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EH15RRHPZHFO&amp;keywords=the+great+life+photographers&amp;qid=1570115481&amp;s=gateway&amp;sprefix=the+great+life+photogr%2Caps%2C142&amp;sr=8-1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Great LIFE Photographers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote id=\"double-block_5da09b40a8dfe\" class=\"double-image aligncenter\">\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5354451 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051573. \" caption=\"Children in Aldgate using the ruins of a bombed house as a stage for a vaudeville show. (Photo by Hans Wild\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"Wild_A_IC\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/11162907\/Wild_A_IC-e1570811347728-870x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Children in Aldgate using the ruins of a bombed house as a stage for a vaudeville show. (Photo by Hans Wild\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Wild_A_IC<\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Children in Aldgate using the ruins of a bombed house as a stage for a vaudeville show. (Photo by Hans Wild\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n    <section>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" data=\"block-image\" data-id=5354452 desc=\"Asset ID: 13051572. \" caption=\"Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill smoking a cigar as he stands in his studio painting a landscape. (Photo by Hans Wild\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.life.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/11154615\/Wild_B_IC-e1570808884316-797x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill smoking a cigar as he stands in his studio painting a landscape. (Photo by Hans Wild\/The LIFE Picture Collection &copy; Meredith Corporation)\" \/>\n                <div class=\"image-info\">\n            <p class=\"image-caption\"><\/p>\n            <p class=\"image-caption\">Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill smoking a cigar as he stands in his studio painting a landscape. (Photo by Hans Wild\/The LIFE Picture Collection \u00a9 Meredith Corporation)<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A failed bookkeeper and avid tinkerer, Hans Wild (1914-1969) started at LIFE in the London darkroom. 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