Background
Tom Beck was born in 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Tom Beck was born in 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
Beck received a BA in 1969 and an MFA in 1972 from the University of Maryland, College Park, and another MFA in 1975 from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore.
In 1979 Beck became director of the Equitable Trust Company Photographic Survey of Maryland. Since 1974 he has been curator of the Edward L. Bafford Photography Collection, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and he has lectured on photography at the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., since 1975.
A member of SPE, CAA, Washington Picture Group and Smithsonian Associates.