Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography by Beil, Kim

Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography

A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital. We are all photographers now, with...
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Author: Kim Beil
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Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography by Beil, Kim

Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography

€48,99

Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography

€48,99
Author: Kim Beil
Format: Paperback
Language: English

A picture-rich field guide to American photography, from daguerreotype to digital.

We are all photographers now, with camera phones in hand and social media accounts at the ready. And we know which pictures we like. But what makes a good picture? And how could anyone think those old styles were actually good? Soft-focus yearbook photos from the '80s are now hopelessly--and happily--outdated, as are the low-angle portraits fashionable in the 1940s or the blank stares of the 1840s. From portraits to products, landscapes to food pics, Good Pictures proves that the history of photography is a history of changing styles.

In a series of short, engaging essays, Kim Beil uncovers the origins of fifty photographic trends and investigates their original appeal, their decline, and sometimes their reuse by later generations of photographers. Drawing on a wealth of visual material, from vintage how-to manuals to magazine articles for working photographers, this full-color book illustrates the evolution of trends with hundreds of pictures made by amateurs, artists, and commercial photographers alike. Whether for selfies or sepia tones, the rules for good pictures are always shifting, reflecting new ways of thinking about ourselves and our place in the visual world.



Author: Kim Beil
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 06/23/2020
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.05lbs
Size: 9.20h x 7.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781503608665


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About the Author
Kim Beil teaches art history at Stanford University and writes about modern and contemporary art for publications including Artforum, Art in America, and Photograph. She thinks of Instagram as research and can be found @kim.beil.

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