Fisher College of Business

Wexner Center for the Arts
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Photographic construction, 20" x 14"
Graduate Programs Reception 100

Orton Hall
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Photographic construction, 20" x 14"
Graduate Programs Reception 100

Cincinnati native Kenneth Becker received a Bachelor of Architecture from Ohio University. He currently practices architecture in Columbus. Becker creates geometric constructions with segments of photographic prints and mirror-image prints, sometimes combined with ink, pencil, and colored paper. Some constructions contain more than 100 photographic prints. Although Becker frequently works with architectural details, in some works he uses nature as the main construction form.

I decided to explore a less factual, more creative constructive and expressive technique of creating photographic art. My technique is not limited to a single image of the camera's eye, but uses the designer's eye to combine segments of multiple prints and reverse prints, manipulating the elements of design -- color, shape, line, pattern, and movement -- to create a photographic construction.