Over the course of his career, he accepted 5,240 assignments in black-and-white photography alone.

But colour was very much in the ascendant, and by the end of the 1960s black-and-white photography was mainly confined to art gallery walls.

The black-and-white photography has been digitally enhanced to piercing perfection and the crisp script moves swiftly, with a series of strange events building in intensity.

But black-and-white photography doesn't stay honest just because it's black and white.

Yellow filters increase contrast in a wide range of lighting and subject conditions when used in black-and-white photography.