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How to be a Retronaut

If the past is a foreign country, this is your passport

Anachronisms
- The future in the past
  - The Dazzle-Ships of WWI
  - Visions from Popular Science
- The past in the present
  - "Cloud of Unknowing" - Gorillaz
  - "The Swing" (1767) Jean-Honoré Fragonard
  - Biblical scenes in Google Earth
  - Classic photographs in Lego
  - Facebook updates for historic events
  - Franz Xaver Messerschmidt sculptures, 1700s
  - Man removing his shirt in Piero della Francesca "The Baptism Of Christ" (1450)
  - Marwencol
  - USB Typewriters
- The present in the past
  - Apple Mac in Mad Men
  - Contemporary ruins
    - Ghost Station Tube Maps
    - Ukrainian Airfield
  - Contempory Memento Mori
    - Aged Barbie
    - Aged Superheroes
    - Bugs Bunny's skeleton
    - Tweety-pie's skeleton
  - Darth Vader painted by Monet, 1875
  - Hollywood Premakes
  - iPad in 2001: A Space Odyssey
  - iPods in 1977
  - Ming Dynasty beer-cans
  - Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
  - Smiling Victorians
  - Star Wars for Retronauts
  - Steampunk laptop
  - Steampunk Stormtrooper
  - Superheroes in history
  - The Georgian iMax
  - Victorian Star Wars
  - “Modern Renaissance” & “Celebrity Time-Travel”
Change
- Extreme change
  - Earl's Court Farm, 1867
  - Heathrow Airport, 1935
  - The Brixton Zebra
  - The Collapsing Wall, 1940s / 2010
- Gradual change
  - "Stour Valley and Dedham Village" (1815/2010), John Constable
  - Anna and Richard Wagner, 1900-1945
  - Chiswick High Road, 1982 / 2003
  - The "Ziggy Stardust" phone-box, 1972-2009
- Slow change
  - USSR, 1953
Early technology
- Colour photography
  - Brighton beach, Saturday, June 16th, 1906
  - Fleet Street, London, 1:55pm on a sunny Sunday afternoon in 1924
  - Imperial Russia, 1909-1915
  - Panoramic Tokyo, 1865
  - Soho, 1959
- Music video
  - Soundies
  - The first music video, 1895
- Photography
  - Aerial
  - Calotype
  - Collodion
  - Daguerreotype
  - Fakes
  - Film
    - Amateur
    - Archive
    - Bloopers
    - Chronochrome
    - Feature
    - Kinemacolor
    - Kodachrome Motion
    - Pioneer
  - Hand-tinted
  - Hipstamatic
  - Kodachrome
  - Photobooth
  - Platinotype
  - Portraiture
  - Roundography
  - Time-lapse
  - Waxed paper negative
- Recorded sound
  - "There'll Come A Time" - Arthur Pryor, 1897
- Snap-shot photography
  - Girl on a tricycle Ireland 1900
- Stereo photography
  - 3D Ancient Japan
Multiple Time
- The Ghosts of…
  - Amsterdam
  - Cherbourg
  - Leningrad
  - Macclesfield
  - the Blitz
  - Toronto
  - World War II
- The Kodak building
Replicas
- The brand-new medieval castle
Time-travel culture
- Back to the Future iPhone App
- Dr Evermore & the Forevertron
Timelessness
- Chicago Night Clubs, 1970s, by Michael Abramson
- Paris, 1910-1914, by Eugene Atget
Uncategorized
- Art
  - Design
    - Advertising
    - Books
    - Comics
    - Informatics
    - Objects
      - Clothing
      - Toys
      - Vehicles
    - Posters
    - Products
  - Modelling
- Geography
  - Location
Unusual duration
- Contracted time
  - Rush hour, Waterloo Station, 1970
  - Time-lapse from space
- Exceptional survival
  - Ice-Age flute
  - London's oldest statue
  - Mozart's skull
  - Notting Hill Gate Tube posters c. 1956-1959
  - The Cabinet of Sarah Hare
  - The Roman road-map
- Expanded time
  - 27-year-old picnic
  - Crayola Colour Chart, 1903-2010
  - One family, 30 years

High Command, 1944...

Photographs of Allied Forces High Command, London, February 1944.

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Images 1-10; 12 by David E. Scherman and drawn from LIFE magazine’s archive.