In 1962, Dutch celebrity Ria Kuyken was attacked by a circus bear. Cees de Boer captured this moment, for which he was awarded both a World Press Photo and the Silver Camera (Zilveren Camera). Though this photo popularised Fotopersbureau De Boer, which Cees had founded ...

Over the past two decades, The New York Times have increasingly incorporated visual experimentation in their use of photography, employing art and design strategies for what were once more conventional editorial subjects. The long-held hierarchy between text and image h...

Over the past two decades, The New York Times have increasingly incorporated visual experimentation in their use of photography, employing art and design strategies for what were once more conventional editorial subjects. The long-held hierarchy between text and image h...

This article presents a biography of the Spaarnestad Collection in the National Archives, the largest analogue press photo archive in the Netherlands, originating from De Spaarnestad, a major publisher of illustrated magazines. In the origins, development and structure ...

In Digital Humanities we are accustomed to think about tools as a means to tell a story, whether it be a story about artefacts, events, or patterns in the past. This paper looks at it from the other end, namely that each tool comes with its own story. When we group t...

A major goal of curating natural history collections or cultural artefacts in museums, herbaria, libraries and archives is to create diverse and rich narratives around them. Their investigation by computational methods enables scholars to discover new connections and pa...

REPUBLIC is a five-year project to compile a digital online edition of the resolutions of the Dutch States General issued between 1576 and 1796. In this article we compare the expected outcome of the project with the book and online editions that preceded it, and we ass...

The linguist James Huang categorized languages into “cool” languages (i.e., languages that rely more on context) and “hot” languages (i.e., languages that rely less on context). Mandarin is thought to be a textbook example of “cool” languages, far “cooler” than language...

Abstract This article tracks the remarkable role played by a commercial property developer, the Arndale Property Company, in the transformation of urban Britain across the second half of the twentieth century. This was an era of great change in cities, as urban environm...

Antea Group 435827. In de periode van 26 november 2018 tot en met 19 november 2019 is een opgraving, variant archeologische begeleiding, uitgevoerd op verschillende locaties aan de Noorderhaven, Lopende Diep en Lage der A (zie afb. 1). De aanleiding voor dit onderzoek i...