https://www.kimbeil.com/teaching daily 0.75 2025-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568226253244-XFFIBY5H46IGS50Y0QVE/IMG_0910.JPG Teaching - ITALIC I am the Associate Director of ITALIC, an interdisciplinary arts program for first-year students at Stanford University. Students live together and take a year-long course from the program’s teaching team, whose areas of expertise include music visual art, poetry, performance, dance, and film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/135eb8da-e5f6-4af0-b888-3e5a8ec05e8d/IMG_2194.JPG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/11f8a32b-65bb-4f87-bf79-3e668b7dac1c/beil_ITALIC99_talking_pictures.PNG https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/0d9196ea-c6ef-46b9-89af-102066ad65b5/99_one+thing+then+another+THE+PHOTOBOOK.jpg Teaching - One Thing, Then Another: The Photobook This course approached the photobook as a medium in itself, distinct from both photographs and books. Editing, pacing, and layout all shape the viewer’s interaction with the book, while paper, cover, and binding choices allow the photobook maker to craft a uniquely tactile experience of the image sequence. Drawing on the Stanford Art Library’s rich collection of photobooks, as well as Special Collections resources, such as the Arthur Tress archive, students studied a wide range of books, from classics of the modern era to books published just this year. Established photographers and photobook publishers, including Endia Beal, Arthur Tress, Odette England, and Nelson Chan, visited the class to reflect on their experiences and guided students towards making their own books. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568226833859-B693EXCO0YV0ONOL1880/IMG_0242.JPG Teaching - Art Writing This course, for Art and Art History majors, explored writing about art, both as a means to making art known to the wider world and to knowing it better yourself. Seven Bay Area-based artists visited the class and led the students on tours of their favorite artworks in the collections of the Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection. Students then transcribed these conversations and wrote essays on the visiting artists’ work by referencing their discussions of other artworks. Here, the photographer Erica Deeman talks about Frank Stella’s “Zeltweg” (1981). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568295347676-K15YGOWWGYJTTD03RACQ/IMG_6775.JPG Teaching - Photography and Truth In 2017, the concept of truth was suddenly newsworthy. Just as it proved remarkably difficult to pin down in national politics, it’s surprisingly difficult to judge in photographs. This class studied the many ways that writing has been used to shape interpretation of photographs since the nineteenth century. Students produced writing that defined their own ideas about the relationship between photography and truth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568295977665-D2QEGM615VOY4JNVV1QI/IMG_4565.JPG Teaching - The Image of Time This course traced the history of representing time in the visual arts, with an emphasis on photography. We considered photography’s role in producing a mechanized and standardized time in the nineteenth century, as well as attempts to use photography to destabilize such objective temporalities. In the twentieth century, we studied the dominant theorization of photography as an art that addresses time, history, and memory through study of critical texts by Benjamin, Barthes, and Bazin, among others. The course concluded by interrogating the applicability of these analogue theories to contemporary photographic practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1589847112172-CRWJV839IJL5JAGECPD4/1_PY41U9OK-KNVbqXA0b_uBg.png Teaching - Notes to a Young Artist This course partnered with a local high school, allowing university students the opportunity to reflect on their learning in the arts and to pass it on. Students created an online magazine of essays, virtual museum tours, and video art assignments that are accessible to all artists—young and old. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1618789742361-PNBF2P6X2XOZEWN06KSF/IMG_6206.jpg Teaching - Mail Art In a series of artist-led workshops, students made 5x7” artworks to mail to each other, bridging the distance enforced by remote learning through the wonders of the USPS. Read more about it in an article from the Stanford Report and the Postal Record, the official magazine of the Letter Carriers’ Union. https://www.kimbeil.com/about daily 0.75 2022-03-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1576011841608-RNZQXJR6DN74Z6V178NF/8F9A7026_.jpg About - I study art and visual culture professionally, as well as maps, trails, and birds recreationally. Basically, I like looking at things and thinking about looking. My book, Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography, tracks 50 stylistic changes in the medium from its invention in the nineteenth century until the present day. Motion blur, lens flare, grainy film, and the low-angle portraits of the 1940s are a few of my favorite trends. I also love snapshots of picnics, people with their cars, and accidental pictures of the photographer’s own walking feet. (I take a lot of these.) The book was released in June 2020 by Stanford University Press. I also write about modern and contemporary art, visual culture, and writing. You can find links to essays and reviews on the Writing page. I teach art history at Stanford University. author photo by Austin Nelson https://www.kimbeil.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-03-05 https://www.kimbeil.com/good-pictures daily 0.75 2021-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1575295820472-55K9RXF3VRXR2SSS1Y3F/cover_image001_002.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318341220-DMJWU65MUCTAKEKO0CO7/IMG_8944.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318345745-KKD670URBP55H1DH1HMA/IMG_8938.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318343741-6KXGULUA9HOS833WWH0A/IMG_8939.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318371329-EIX6US82K8YJ186A7QT7/IMG_8940.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318352907-D00S8X1D4V5293WN87UM/IMG_8936.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318346441-UKXFWFYLQ6G34FSESPPD/IMG_8947.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318379155-A6CGKVLKSZQMHSHM65U5/IMG_8948.JPG Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318397643-JQJYH8CZ033ODU0PW0SH/IMG_8951.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318386224-5XQFF8HUC4YWN7PXQ4NA/IMG_8952.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318389217-0RKG5B9EQFM656ZRAXMQ/IMG_8953.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318388952-WWQOGK9NWOZ692QLEED8/IMG_8956.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318406295-T9D84NOWRDX5WL9Y6Q14/IMG_8957.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318406837-7UPLYSFY1NRIP5WRERRA/IMG_8958.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318410315-G23OAYJJWOI188D8W9U3/IMG_8996.jpg Good Pictures https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1568318410379-7TGLRIKZVV29U3YPT2X4/IMG_9227.jpg Good Pictures https://www.kimbeil.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-03-01 https://www.kimbeil.com/projects daily 0.75 2022-04-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1589846139362-DGE46V2RZCDLLQYKOUQA/diebenkorn-ocean+park.png Projects - Up Close: One-Painting Tours with Artists In this series of micro-interviews, I take viewers “up close,” to study one painting in the Anderson Collection at Stanford University from the perspective of an established contemporary artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1592006508318-YAQD39ZTPHAZ0AWT3EET/friedlander_talking.png Projects - Talking in the Library These short videos record conversations I’ve had with contemporary photographers about photobooks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/1606149283850-YS28NXF0JRDZKYZOA532/Screen+Shot+2020-11-23+at+8.33.33+AM.png Projects - Adobe Education Exchange I created these 14 projects that can be used for teaching art history online or in-person for the Adobe Education Exchange. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/ee90bd1d-97d2-4361-8ca2-4a13709514ec/IMG_6832.jpg Projects - Unpacking My Library A series of essays on nineteenth-century schoolbooks, the things found in them, history, family, and collecting. https://www.kimbeil.com/links daily 0.75 2025-03-05 https://www.kimbeil.com/talkingpictures daily 0.75 2023-03-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/89b72205-0362-4fe3-945f-ea22b9710b45/gutmann_game.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/5b4329af-f705-488a-a15e-16bc71c01bf2/levitt_door.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/131f4108-80ec-4c47-8365-798b61eac5b1/levitt_ladder.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/e005b9a5-72bd-4f2e-af4c-e3adb653ce32/Screenshot+2023-02-22+at+12.54.54+PM.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/7f9a6d11-1357-49de-a934-2ac8f8812e46/morris_house_in_winter.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/367a263e-d766-47a5-a3c9-2e42caef96be/kira_the+thinker.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/0c37a0ca-33c2-4666-84d9-8c89a18e6ce1/stackpole_mother+and+daughter.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/8ab05340-8547-477b-8785-e40472c8d90d/gutmann_monster+on+broadway.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/56197bfe-f44c-4ae6-9c20-8c6d9aaf12bb/gutmann_lost+what.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/bc4375fc-e3e1-4095-bf23-7cb10809269f/disraeli_sunday+after+church.png https://www.kimbeil.com/good-pictures-1 daily 1.0 2024-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d76d5c1e0addf32ef279a78/a71d092d-2ca5-4ab8-933a-aa1944fe26a9/Anonymous+Objects Anonymous Objects - 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