How to Break the Rules: Instructional Literature and Photographic Style

Kim Beil, Associate Director, ITALIC, Stanford University, Stanford, United States

Kim Beil is a writer and educator based in the San Francisco Bay area. She is the associate director of ITALIC, an interdisciplinary arts program at Stanford University, where she also teaches courses on the history of photography and modern and contemporary art. Her writing has appeared in Afterimage, Art in America, Artforum, and Photograph magazines, among other publications. Her book, Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography, was released in June by Stanford University Press. She thinks of Instagram as research and you can find her @kebeil.