{{Short description|British photographer (1912–1969)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} '''Hans Wild''' (1912–1969) was a British photographer who worked for ''Life'' magazine from 1938 to 1946. Some of his best known work appeared on the cover of ''Life'' including a photo of historian Charles Seltman<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UlAEAAAAMBAJ|issn=0024-3019|volume=15|issue=12|date=20 September 1943|title=Cambridge Don|page=23}}</ref> in 1943 and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill while painting with an easel in 1946.<ref name="churchill">{{Cite magazine|title = Winston Churchill at Leisure: LIFE Portraits of the Private Man|url = https://time.com/3667687/winston-churchill-life-portraits/|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150126100809/http://time.com/3667687/winston-churchill-life-portraits/|url-status = live|archive-date = 26 January 2015|magazine=Time|access-date = 4 January 2016|first = Ben|last = Cosgrove}}</ref>
Wild became a professional photographer at 24 years old in 1936, and worked for ''Life'' in various capacities in the United States, England, France and Italy. He took numerous photos documenting World War II, as well as portraits of famous people including John Cage,<ref name="Nicholls2007">{{cite book|last=Nicholls|first=David|title=John Cage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BrcHAQAAMAAJ|year=2007|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0-252-03215-8|page=69}}</ref><ref name="Jowitt1989">{{cite book|last=Jowitt|first=Deborah|title=Time and the Dancing Image|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uaECpiO__W8C&pg=PA281|year=1989|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-06627-4|page=281}}</ref> Merce Cunningham,<ref name="Jowitt1989"/> Vivien Leigh,<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p0sEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA121|issn=0024-3019|volume=19|issue=15|date=8 October 1945|title=J. Arthur Rank|page=121}}</ref> Mary Welsh Hemingway, Bing Crosby, actress Pat Kirkwood, the painter Thomas Hart Benton, E. V. Knox editor of ''Punch'', Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, Rupert Neve, fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, Laurence Olivier, Daphne du Maurier, C. S. Lewis, Alexander Fleming, Chinese Ambassador Guo Taiqi, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Benjamin Britten, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and American diplomats Jefferson Caffery and Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Jr., Louis II, Prince of Monaco with Ghislaine Dommanget and Rainier III, Robert Anthony Eden, David Lloyd George, Thomas Beecham.
During his career Wild took many photos of ordinary life and common people of particular artistic and historic documental relevance such as shots of Londoners sleeping in the London Underground during World War II bombing raids in 1940.<ref>{{Cite magazine|title = Down, Not Out, in London: LIFE in the Underground, 1940|url = https://time.com/3875448/london-underground-down-not-out-in-the-great-subway-in-world-war-ii/|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150923070614/http://time.com/3875448/london-underground-down-not-out-in-the-great-subway-in-world-war-ii/|url-status = live|archive-date = 23 September 2015|magazine=Time|access-date = 4 January 2016|first = Ben|last = Cosgrove}}</ref> He also participated in the production and development of photographs of D-Day with Robert Capa.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Alternate History: Robert Capa and Magnum (2) « Photocritic International|url = http://www.nearbycafe.com/artandphoto/photocritic/2015/12/09/alternate-history-robert-capa-john-morris-and-magnum-2/|website = nearbycafe.com|accessdate = 4 January 2016|date=9 December 2015|last=Coleman|first=A.D.|author-link=A. D. Coleman}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = The Magnificent Eleven: The D-Day Photographs of Robert Capa|url = http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html|website = skylighters.org|accessdate = 4 January 2016|archive-date = 20 March 2006|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060320011229/http://www.skylighters.org/photos/robertcapa.html|url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title=Robert Capa's Longest Day|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2014/06/photographer-robert-capa-d-day|first=Marie|last=Brenner|date=31 May 2014|journal=Vanity Fair|access-date=4 January 2016}}</ref>
After the war, Wild returned to London and opened his own studio in Chelsea specialising in fashion and theatre, and works for the textile industry.<ref name="npr">{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp58819/hans-wild|title=Hans Wild (1912–1969), photographer|publisher=National Portrait Gallery|access-date=4 January 2016}}</ref> His dance photographs appeared in Richard Buckle's ''Ballet'' magazine.<ref name="npr"/>
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==External links== * [http://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/hans-wild?all/all/all/all/0 Hans Wild archived items] at the International Center of Photography
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Category:Life (magazine) photojournalists Category:British photojournalists Category:1912 births Category:1969 deaths Category:Photographers from London
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