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Photoshop Precursor Silvy Tweaked Images Back in Dickens’s Day

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Image manipulation is a news story, and a scandal, in the 21st century.

A beautiful little exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery -- “Camille Silvy: Photographer of Modern Life” -- reveals that the procedures we associate with Photoshop already existed in mid-Victorian London.