Strap on your goggles and prepare to time travel. Retronaut is a photographic time machine that warps your sense of the past, collecting more than 350 astonishing, strange, and unforgettable images from public and private archives around the world. From early color photographs and vintage advertising to intimate snapshots of famous and ordinary people, each page reveals a single image and a short caption that transforms how we see history. Thought-provoking, surprising and wonderfully curious, Retronaut invites readers to browse, wonder, and discover history as you have never seen it before. / Retronaut: The Photographic Time Machine is a curated illustrated collection of over 350 vintage photographs, illustrations and ephemera selected from the Retronaut website and archives. Organized thematically into sections such as Future Worlds, Icons Unmade, The Power of the Trivial, Alternative Realities and global curiosities, the book presents single-image spreads with succinct captions. Its aim is to reframe familiar narratives of the past by presenting visually surprising, uncanny or counterintuitive moments that invite readers to rethink historical expectations. The book is primarily a large format photographic album for browsing rather than a continuous text narrative. / Chris Wild is the founder and curator of Retronaut, a popular online archive and blog devoted to vintage photography and historical ephemera. A former museum curator, Wild built Retronaut into a widely visited time-themed site that highlights unusual, surprising and historically revealing images from public and private collections. He compiled and wrote the captions for Retronaut: The Photographic Time Machine, bringing together hundreds of images from the site with brief contextual notes and commentary.