Background
Ken Brown was born in 1944 in Dayton, Ohio, United States.
cartoonist filmmaker Photographer
Ken Brown was born in 1944 in Dayton, Ohio, United States.
Brown studied at the University of Massachusetts in Boston from 1962 to 1965.
Since 1977 Brown has been a film and animation instructor at Boston College in Massachusetts and has been self-employed in the postcard business since 1975. From 1977 to 1979 he was an artist-in-residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During the years 1970-75 he worked as a film instructor for the Boston area public schools.
In 1977 he was a recipient of both a Massachusetts Arts and Humanities Photography Fellowship and a Cambridge Arts Council Film Award. Films he has made are Down to the Sea, a documentary, and an animated film, Stampede.
Brown says of his work, “Coincidence, confluence, humor and irony-these are the things I love to look for in my photography. I love the populist tradition of postcards and have chosen the medium to disseminate my work."
He is a member of the Photographic Resource Center and the Boston Film/Video Foundation.