jQuery plugin show image

I generate a HTML page with the links to images from a directory.

First I was thinking to load/display all the images and then to hide them using jQuery .hide() When a user will click to a image I'll display that image, but I hope you can offer me a better approach.

It's possible to load/show a image, only when the user clicks to a link? Can you recoomend me a plugin or a PHP script for that?

From stackoverflow

• You can use Ibox and do something like this:

  <a href="http://site.com/img.jpg" rel="ibox">Image 1</a>
  

  When someone clicks this link, the image will show up in a small hovering window.

• lighbox, ThickBox would do the trick.

  Look at this under Lightbox Techniques: Lightbox Techniques