"A picture is worth a thousand words"

"Een foto zegt meer dan duizend woorden"

"一张图片胜过千言万语。"

This saying suggests that a single image can convey complex ideas, emotions, or information more effectively than a lengthy verbal description. It emphasizes the power of visual communication to capture nuances, context, and details in ways that words alone might struggle to achieve. This phrase is often used to highlight the importance of imagery in storytelling, journalism, marketing, art, and everyday life. However, the phrase doesn't diminish the value of words entirely. Rather, it underscores how images and text can complement each other. While pictures excel at evoking emotion and providing immediate impact, words offer precision, depth, and explanation. Together, they form a powerful combination for effective communication.

Deze uitspraak suggereert dat één enkele afbeelding complexe ideeën, emoties of informatie effectiever kan overbrengen dan een lange verbale beschrijving. Het benadrukt het vermogen van visuele communicatie om nuances, context en details vast te leggen op manieren waarop woorden alleen misschien moeite hebben om te bereiken. Deze uitdrukking wordt vaak gebruikt om de belangrijkheid van beeldmateriaal in verhalen vertellen, journalistiek, marketing, kunst en het dagelijks leven te onderstrepen. De uitspraak verkleint echter niet volledig de waarde van woorden. In plaats daarvan benadrukt het hoe afbeeldingen en tekst elkaar kunnen aanvullen. Terwijl afbeeldingen uitblinken in het oproepen van emoties en directe impact bieden, bieden woorden precisie, diepgang en uitleg. Samen vormen ze een krachtige combinatie voor effectieve communicatie.

这句谚语表明，一张图片可以比冗长的文字描述更有效地传达复杂的思想、情感或信息。它强调了视觉传播在捕捉细微差别、背景和细节方面的能力，而这些可能是文字难以充分表达的。 这句话常被用来突出图像在讲故事、新闻、营销、艺术和日常生活中的重要性。然而，这句话并没有完全贬低文字的价值，而是强调了图像和文字可以相辅相成。图片擅长唤起情感并提供即时影响，而文字则提供了精确性、深度和解释。两者结合在一起，形成了强有力的沟通组合。

The history of photography
De geschiedenis van de fotografie
摄影的历史

~1000

The history of photography began in remote antiquity with the discovery of two critical principles: camera obscura image projection and the observation that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. Before photography was developed, people had figured out the basic principles of lenses and the camera. They could project the image on a wall or a piece of paper, but printing was not yet possible.Camera obscura can be seen as a prototype of the modern photo camera. The very first camera obscura was developed by the Arab astronomer and mathematician Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham (Basra, 965 – Cairo, ±1040).

1825

The first photo picture — as we know it — was taken in 1825 by a French inventor - Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. It records a view from the window at Le Gras. At least eight hours or even several days of exposure in the camera were required and the earliest results were very crude. Niépce used a coating of bitumen of Judea to make the first permanent camera photographs. The bitumen was hardened where it was exposed to light and the unhardened portion was then removed with a solvent. In 1839, Sir John Herschel came up with a way of making the first glass negative. The same year he coined the term "photography", deriving from the Greek "fos" - meaning "light" - and "grafo" — meaning "to write".

1838

Another pioneer of photography is Louis Daguerre, a Frenchman. He was able to greatly improve the quality of the photographic print. His invention, the daguerreotype, is a process for developing photographs based on a polished plate prepared with mercury vapors. The process is as follows: you make a polished, silver-plated copper plate light-sensitive with iodine vapors. Then you place the plate in a camera obscura, a light-proof box with a small hole that you open while taking the photo. The exposure results in an invisible image on the plate. You make this latent image visible with mercury vapor.

1948

After the prints on metal plates, there were also photos on paper. In 1841, the negative was invented, so that it became possible to print the same image several times. In 1861, the Scotsman James Clerk Maxwell made the first colour photograph by projecting a red, green and blue filtered image on top of each other. Color photography was explored in the 19th century, but it didn't really become commercially viable until the mid-20th century. In the mid-20th century, developments made it possible for amateurs to take photos in both natural color and black and white. In color photography, electronic sensors or light-sensitive chemicals record color information at the time of exposure.

1991

At the end of the eighties of the twentieth century, the first scanners came on the market and digital cameras also made their appearance. The camera that is considered the first digital camera was a prototype developed in 1975 by Steven Sasson at Eastman Kodak. The commercial introduction of computer-based electronic digital cameras in the 1990s quickly revolutionized photography. During the first decade of the 21st century, traditional film-based photochemical methods were increasingly marginalized as the practical advantages of the new technology were widely appreciated and the image quality of moderately priced digital cameras was continually improved.

1999

In 1999, the Japanese company Kyocera launched the first mobile phone on the market that could also take photos. The phone wasn't popular because of its high price, but it did inspire other companies to get into phone photography. Initially, there were all kinds of obstacles. For example, the memory was too small for more than 10-20 photos, and you couldn't share the photos directly from the phone (you had to put them on your computer first). This development soon ended up in an express train. Since 2004, almost every mobile phone has a built-in camera. Today, the possibilities in the world of photography are almost endless! Whatever genre you practice, you will find everything you need in our webshop. Especially since cameras became a standard feature on smartphones, taking photos (and publishing them online immediately) has become a ubiquitous daily practice around the world.

2022

AI photography or promptography is a new form of image creation in art. In a world where technology is constantly evolving, artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in various domains. Including the world of contemporary art. In promptography, images are created in the creative process by giving prompts, instructions, to an AI program. Without the need for a camera. There are various programs, where the creative process lies in inventing increasingly refined linguistic 'prompts' after which images appear. In fact, a practitioner is not a photographer but a prompteur - an image tamer.

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Fotoalbums klik op foto's om naar de webpagina's te gaan
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Web development
Webontwikkeling
网页开发
Digital art
Digitale kunst
数字艺术

trials and results of incorporating digital technology into the creation or production process of art works.

Proeven en resultaten van het integreren van digitale technologie in het creatie- of productieproces van kunstwerken.

将数字技术融入艺术品创作或制作过程的试验与成果。

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Video clips
Videoclips
视频片段

Short video fragments as a tool to remember various aspects of the past.

Korte video fragmenten als hulpmiddel om diverse aspecten van het verleden te kunnen herinneren.

短视频片段作为记忆过去各个方面的工具。

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