Arquitecto
Central & South America
El Tigre, San Cristobal, Guatemala
Medium: Cibachrome photograph
Date:
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30", 30x40"
Edition: 25 for each size
Azul y Rojo, San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala
Medium: Cibachrome photograph
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30", 30x40"
Edition: 25 for each size
Embroiderer’s Hands, Guatemala
Medium: Ilfochrome photograph
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
Casa Flamante, Momostenango, Guatemala
Medium: Ilfochrome photograph
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
Boy with Iguana, Kilometro, Honduras
Medium: Ilfochrome
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
Yellow Lintel, Llama, Santa Barbara, Honduras
Medium: Cibachrome photograph
Date: 1995
Size: 11x14", 16x20"
Edition: 25 for each size
Ecuador's Painted Villages
India
Shoes, Chandla, Madhya, Pradesh, India
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2008
Size: 8x10", 16x24", 30x45"
Edition: 45, 25, 10
White Goat, Bangra, Uttar, Pradesh, India
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2008
Size: 8x10", 16x24", 30x45"
Edition: 45, 25, 10
Bangles Shop, Nagaur, Rajasthan, India
Medium" Archival pigment print
Date: 2008
Size: 8x10", 16x24", 30x45"
Edition: 45, 25, 10
Blue Passage, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
Medium: Archival pigment print
Date: 2008
Size: 8x10", 16x24", 30x45"
Edition: 45, 25, 10
Bangles Shop, Nagaur, Rasthan, India
Medium: Archival pigment print
Size: 8x10", 16x24", 30x45"
Edition: 45, 25, 10
Mediterrean Color (Europe)
Wall With Deck Chairs, Burano, Italy
Medium: Ilfochrome photograph
Date: 1978
Size: 20x24" ONLY
Edition: 75
Wall With Roses, Obidos, Portugal
Medium: Cibachrome photograph (now Ilfochrome)
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
Gypsy House, Chanca, Almeria, Spain
Medium: Cibachrome photograph
Size: 11x14"
Edition: originally 25
Mexico
Painted Arcade, Tlacotalpan, Veracruz, Mexico
Medium: Cibachrome
Date: 1992
Size: 11x14"
Edition: 25
Medium: Cibachrome photograph
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30", 30x40"
Edition: 25 for each size except largest which is 10
Pink Pig and Painted Walls, Mexico
Medium: Ilfochrome photograph
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
Colores Y Sombras, Michoacan, Mexico
Medium: Ilfochrome photograph
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
Three Green Pillars, Tabasco, Mexico
Medium: Ilfochrome photograph
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
Tres Lanchas, Xochimilco, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Medium: Ilfochrome photograph
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
Medium: Cibachrome/Ilfochrome
Date: 1994
Size: 11x14" 16x20" 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
Painted Drapery, Veracruz, Mexico
Medium: Cibachrome
Date: 1994
Size: 16x20"
Edition: One left in the edition only.
Pink Awning, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico
Medium: Cibachrome photograph
Date: 1991
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
Peru
Medium: Cibachrome photograph
Date: 2005
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30"
Edition: 25 for each size
House of the Music Teacher, Peru
Medium: Cibachrome photograph
Date: 2004
Size: 11x14", 16x20", 20x30", 30x40"
Edition: 25 for each size
BIOGRAPHY
Jeffrey Becom has been a life-long painter with formal training as an architect.
Jeffrey Becom has a magnificent sense of color and form and applies them to his vision of facades, homes, churches and tombs in the environment in which he is currently trying to document with his camera.
Born in a small Indiana farming community in 1953, Jeffrey Becom painted from an early age. He began to develop his photographic skills while earning a degree in architecture from the University of Cincinnati. After moving to San Francisco to practice, Becom opted out of an architectural career to immerse himself in a private obsession: observing, studying and recording with camera and paintbrush the wondrous color and detail of the simple houses of farmers and fishermen in remote Mediterranean villages and hill towns.
Combining an architect’s love of geometry, pattern and texture with a painter’s sensitivity to color, light and composition, Becom spent a decade creating the series of photographs collected in his first book, Mediterranean Color (Abbeville Press, New York, 1990), with Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Paul Goldberger. This book documents with camera and words, the fascinating history as well as myths behind the remarkable colors on the simple houses of farmers and fishermen. Becom’s work has also been showcased in “For the Colors”, an hour-long PBS (public television) documentary joining him in Italy in 1991. In 1993 Becom had a retrospective exhibition of oils, watercolors and photographs at The Octagon’s American Architectural Foundation galleries in Washington, D.C.
Jeffrey Becom continues to divide his time equally between work in his studio and more recently, extensive travels throughout Mexico and Central America. Maya Color (Abbeville Press, New York, 1997), co-authored with his wife, Sally Jean Aberg, was conceived when Becom began to wonder why so many cemeteries in Southern Mexico are painted blue and green. This curiosity led him and Sally on a journey of eight years’ inquiry and research into the painting traditions of the living Maya. They grew to know a remarkable culture whose sacred colors are not merely a matter of preference but a powerful statement of belief stretching all the way back to their ancient painted pyramids. This new book documents the beauty as well as the power within the colorful traditions of Latin American architecture.
Jeffrey Becom’s limited edition Ilfachrome (i.e. cibachrome) photographs, as well as his watercolors and oil paintings, are represented in public and private collections throughout the world.