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When photography arrived, illustrators feared the end. Parallels with AI today?

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Feb 24, 2026
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When the camera arrived, illustrators feared the end. They were wrong – and right. The AI debate echoes their panic, but history doesn’t repeat so neatly.

In the winter of 1842, when the first issue o…

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