Faking the mickey

John Wade remembers when the shutters finally closed on the British camera industry

The Mammoth by George R Lawrence, 1900

When I was very little – two-and-a-half or three years old – I was given a rabbit fur suit; an all-in-one with a hood. I have a photograph of me wearing it. The photo is very old and worn now, and the

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The famous Cottingley fairy photographs rate as the greatest psychic photographic hoax of the 20th century. Branded “the first deepfake” by the History Channel,1 they have fascinated audiences for gen

THE FIRST GREEN LEICA WAS MADE FOR THE GERMAN MILITARY IN 1960