Kim Beil
@kalophile
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Mystifier and demystifier. Historian, critic, visual studier. New book: "Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography" https://t.co/f9k3Qi5AMn
Joined January 2014
“My running diary is a stack of 8 ½ x 11” papers printed with a calendar grid.” Kim Beil’s running diary for our series, Gym Week. https://t.co/FR48sKA1xO
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January 29, 2025 – “I scheduled my workouts weeks in advance, only infrequently crossing them out.”
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Correspondence Course: Letters on Photography is a new essay series co-authored with @kalophile. During lockdown, Kim and I (who had never met) became photographic pen pals. Our eight letters are now part of @Photomonitor’s Experiments series. Part 1 here:
photomonitor.co.uk
Letters on Photography by Kim Beil and Annebella Pollen Correspondence Course began as a creative adventure during the confinement of Covid lockdowns. While the doors to many museums and archives...
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With Kim Beil (@kalophile) in the bookshop @TPGallery. Double whammy of our two little books on the front desk! Anonymous Objects (published by @MACK_books) and More than a Snapshot (published by @4CornersBooks). Called for a silly s(h)elfie…
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Today in photo forensics: Babe Ruth Baseball Bat Breaks Auction Sale Record Thanks to Photo Evidence
petapixel.com
Record-setting sale made possible thanks to photo evidence.
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We are delighted to announce 📣 More Than A Snapshot: A Visual History of Photo Wallets by @AnnebellaPollen — the tenth title in our beloved Irregulars series. Out this May, pre-order your copy here ⬇️ https://t.co/KjAILAHI1J
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The photograph was by Ansel Adams. Its title: “High Country Crags and Moon, Sunrise, Kings Canyon National Park.” Its date: “circa 1935.” Could an art historian find out exactly when and where it was taken?
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@domesticetch I found this early adopter of the miniature trend at a flea market!
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Tabletops have made a comeback!
A new micro (hah) trend: miniatures!!! I feel like this could be seen as the nexus point between scenic backgrounds, trompe l'oeil, and monumental minimalism—a little silly, definitely eye-catching, and leaning into the larger surrealist zeitgeist.
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I have so many questions: “The core dataset was trained on LAION-Aesthetics…created with a new CLIP-based model that filtered LAION-5B based on how ‘beautiful’ an image was, building on ratings from the alpha testers of Stable Diffusion.”
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This book makes you see the whole world differently. I am grateful to have had the opportunity to talk about it with two fantastic artists, Josh Smith and Vanessa Woods: Talking in the Library - Ken Graves and Eva Lipman's "Restraint and Desire"
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I’d really like to know how many files titled “Meaning of Life” are stored on Google Drive.
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"Touch is the most demystifying of all senses, unlike sight, which is the most magical.” --Roland Barthes, Mythologies
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On #ChattingThePictures, we describe how #BrandonBell’s photo for @GettyImages rises so far above the standard heat wave pic. With thanks, also, to @SaffronJONeill. Watch now: https://t.co/lEHt4UkS3S
#visualsociology #visualstudies #ivsa #visualculture #envcomm #climatecomm
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