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According to reports, Facebook is trialing presenting images on the social network through a different format, moving away from the widely supported JPEG into a more obscure format called WebP.

After Beyoncé's half-time show at this year's Super Bowl, the singer's PR team tried to quash some professionally taken photographs that were deemed "unflattering" — which worked about as well as you'd imagine. The fallout of this has meant that on the singer's new 'Mrs. Carter Show' world tour, professional photographers have been completely banned from the premises.

Glitch art is a currently popular art trend, which intentionally introduces errors into digital files. That means breaking your images on purpose, corrupting and altering them to create bizarre abstractions and surreal versions of the original photograph.

Magic: Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions, including Trick Photography is not a small book. Clocking in at 580 pages, this tome from 1897 is a compilation of tricks and trickery from the Victorain age, compiled and edited by Albert A. Hopkins. While most of its hefty length is devoted to the stage craft that made illusionists and magicians so popular, the last few hundred pages are something equally interesting: early trick photography.