Win a copy of Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography
3 chances to win a copy of Kim Beil’s new book
About the book
While Instagram has made it easy to see how quickly trends come and go in photography, photography has always been faddish. The rules for making “good pictures” change rapidly, just as they have ever since the earliest days of the medium. Sometimes a new style saturates the market, and people get sick of it, inspiring a backlash, like the #nofilter movement. Sometimes styles return or effects that were once considered accidents of the medium are repurposed as artistic effects, such as motion blur, lens flare, or vignetting.
Good Pictures identifies 50 of these trends that have been popular among photographers of all kinds, whether amateurs or professionals. The book’s 200 full-color illustrations include snapshots, commercial and art photographs, and material from vintage how-to manuals. Organized chronologically, each of the short chapters addresses a different stylistic trend, explaining its original appeal and how it was accomplished, as well as the reasons for its eventual decline in popularity. Everyone is a photographer now, making this book a comprehensive history of the practice and a source of inspiration.
3 chances to win
Submission is FREE, and you have three chances to win :
I’ll draw 3 random winners from the submissions on Wednesday, May 26. I’d love for more people to hear about this — tell your photography friends about the giveaway? Good luck!
