 KEN
BUCK
Serendipity marks the genesis of Ken’s photographic career.
In 1968 Ken became the recipient of a secondhand camera, the
gift of a friend bound for England after completing her
education in the United States. Her departing words to
Ken: “Here, you’re an artist. You’ll find a way to use
this.”
This began a visual journey now marked by more than 30 group
exhibitions, 6 solo shows and numerous awards, grants and
commendations. Ken has moved freely between commercial
assignments (editorial, public relations, corporate and
stock photography) and a more poetic world guided by
personal vision. His commercial work has been
reproduced by more than 100 publishers, including
Addison-Wesley, Allyn and Bacon, Brooks/Cole, Curtin and
London, D.C. Heath and Company, Encyclopedia Britannica,
Grolier, Incorporated, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Harper
and Row, Holt, Reinhart and Winston, Houghton Mifflin, John
Wiley and Sons, Little, Brown, MacMillan, McGraw-Hill,
Random House, Silver Burdette, St. Martins Press and Thomas
Nelson. His personal work is included in the permanent
collections of AT&T, the Prudential Insurance Company of
America, the Polaroid Corporation, the Getty Museum, the
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design and the
National Gallery of Canada.In 1980 Ken received a
Polaroid Collection Program Grant. During the same
year he was a finalist for a photography fellowship
sponsored by the Artists Foundation in Boston. By this
time premier collectors Lee Witkin and Sam Wagstaff of New
York had purchased photographs. Curatorial
consultants, designers, architects, dealers and other
artists soon followed.
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from left column...“The idea of
transformation is always in my mind when I work. Whether
dealing with social or natural landscapes, reassessment of
the ordinary via eternally changing events—light,
juxtaposition, the ‘decisive moment’—carries the possibility
of seeing in a way which transcends the commonplace. I
rarely think in terms of ‘theme’ but am content to bump
unexpectedly into what interests me. That becomes the point
of departure in search of essence, elegance and viewpoint.”
Ken has teaching experience, having served as a visiting
critic at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and
an instructor in black and white photography at Lasell
Junior College in Newton, Massachusetts. He
currently teaches introductory black and white photography
at Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts and
pursues free-lance assignments under the business name
KEN BUCK Photography.
Ken received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Rhode
Island School of Design's Department of Illustration. His
initial photographic education began at Imageworks School of
Photography and Related Media in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
TECH NOTES
Photographs were taken with a Canon digital camera,
processed in Photoshop and printed on an Epson Stylus Photo
2200 printer. Prints and mounting materials meet
archival specifications.
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