SEASON 01 — EPISODE 01

To kick off Documentum, Fall Line Press publisher Bill Boling chats with art historian, Stanford lecturer, and Fellowship 10K Essayist Kim Beil. Using photo history Beil helps contextualize NFTs in the current moment and speaks to the scope of the monumental Fellowship 10K project which saw the release of the August Sander Archive as a publicly stewarded collection with the help of NFTs.

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SHOW NOTES

- What is Documentum? [00:00:01]

- Who is Kim Beil? [ 00:01:41]

• Kim Beil talks photobooks

• Instagram

- Episode Overview [00:02:07]

• Fellowship Trust

• Fellowship 10k 

• August Sander Archive 

- Kim’s background [00:03:18] 

- The benefits of technical training in the context of art history [00:07:22]

- Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography [00:08:30]

• A review of Good Pictures on Strange Fire Collective 

• Snapshot aesthetics

- Fellowship 10k & the August Sander Archive [00:15:01]

• Alejandro Cartegena 

• Vernacular photography definition 

• Darius Himes 

• Fernando Gallegos

- Reactions to the project [00:20:56]

• What is a 10k NFT project?

- Museum archive vs NFT archive [00:22:41]

• MoMA August Sander Symposium

  
  - Why collect NFTs? [00:25:47]

• NBA NFTs

• The experience economy 

- Major inventions in photo history [00:28:20]

• Cabinet cards 

• Kodak Brownie

- Archives capabilities within the blockchain [00:32:20]

• Julian Sander’s What is Legacy? 

- The Value of Archives  [00:35:40]

• Midwestern Exposure 

• Howard Nemerov

• Edward Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations  and Every Building on the Sunset Strip

- A brief history of Documentum [00:44:30]

• Documentum 

- A look at photography through history  [00:45:32]

• William Henry Fox Talbot's The Pencil of Nature

• Anna Atkins Cyanotypes of British Algae

• Kim’s essays for the Fellowship 10K

• Polaroid XS70

- What will the vernacular NFT be? [00:49:28]

- Potential roles NFT’s can have in photobooks [00:51:44]

• Gregory Berg

• Jim Goldberg 

• Danny Lyon

- Photobooks Kim is interested in [00:56:35]

• Melissa Catanese’s Voyagers

• The Peter J. Cohen Collection

• Yael Eban’s False Lighthouse 

- The power of collection [00:59:39]

- The value of NFTs in the artworld to come [01:02:55]

- Sign off [01:05:47]