In today's visual culture, we are bombarded with images every day. Images that many people assume are authentic. Yet the long-held notion that photography is about truth is a myth. Photography is an art form. The Hague Museum of Photography aims to give people a space for quiet reflection, where they can discover the layers, meanings and context of photography, and calmly contemplate the art, themselves, their setting and the world. Proceeding from the idea of photography as an art form, in the late 1950s Gemeentemuseum Den Haag was one of the first museums in the Netherlands to start exhibiting photographs. Director Louis Wijsenbeek (1912-1985) managed to attract the World Press Photo exhibition to the Gemeentemuseum for several years. The relatively unknown New Yorker Peter Fink was the first photographer to have a solo exhibition at the museum in 1956. His work was in the post-war humanist tradition. A fitting start, as this form of photography is still an important focus of the museum's collection and exhibition policy.