But perhaps the most remarkable trick Derren Brown has pulled off is to turn a quiet boy unsure of his identity into one of TV's greatest showmen From the earliest days of photography, practitioners took their inspiration from paintings.
There is a discipline called architectural photography, whose practitioners are usually paid by architects to represent their works, but it is not the subject of this exhibition.
At Leeds Art Gallery until 19 February 2012 Romantic Camera New displays at Scotland's reopened portrait gallery include a survey of early photography, whose practitioners in Victorian Scotland created haunting images of old Edinburgh.
The French produced the great early practitioners of the genre, photography's Old Masters, if you will, whose prices are as close to blue-chip investments as photos get.
Next to it is an image from 1902 attributed to Alphonse Bertillon, a Paris police chief credited with developing the mug shot and an early practitioner of crime-scene photography.
But soon his field work with a camera, meant to feed his printmaking, became his primary interest, and he joined the great postwar street photography world, where practitioners like Helen Levitt, William Klein and Lisette Model were at work with their 35-millimeter rangefinders.
Daguerrotypes, as they came to be called, made small, shiny pictures: in the salt print there is a softness in the interplay of light and shade that almost seems to anticipate Impressionism.This show makes very clear that photography's earliest practitioners appreciated the artistic possibilities of the new medium.
Certainly, I feel I owe a great debt of gratitude to the tinkerers, and ultimately, the inventors of photography, the early practitioners and experimenters, the expedition photographers, the pictorialists, the straight photographers, the surrealists, the social documentary photographers, and so on.
Some practitioners utilize thigh measurement and photography to assess improvement, but these methods are not precise (Gherardini et al 1997).
It's not hard to fathom why friction exists between practitioners of fine art and fashion photography.
