217: Kim Beil - Good Pictures - History of American Photography

Kim Beil is an art history lecturer and associate director at
Stanford University. Kim’s new book “Good Pictures” chronicles 50
of the most important photographic techniques over the past 170
years of American photography. Today we talk about just a few of
them and dive deeper into how the past mistakes and successes of
photography got us to where we are today.


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In This Episode You'll Learn:


How the rules for taking good pictures are always shifting.

How the Vignette came to be

Why foreground interest took the world by storm in the mid
1860s

The impact Kodak had on the photography industry

Why night photography wasn’t possible until 1890 and what
were some of the major challenges.

Why there was a swing from technical perfection to
intentionally breaking long standing photography rules to create
images in the 1950s and 60s

Why capturing Candids was looked down upon by many
established photographers for almost a century

What the future of photography looks like.



Resources:


Kim Beil’s website

Kim Beil on Instagram

 Buy Kims Book “Good Pictures”



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