Bill Beckley and Narrative Art

Bill Beckley is an American conceptual artist and one of the first artists to use photography as a means of artistic expression. In the early 1970s he was part of a loose-knit group of conceptual artists that used images and fictional texts in a form that came to be known as Narrative Art. I was basically writing a story and taking pictures at the same time. "The text evolved with the photos", he says.

In the 1980s he experimented with various materials and his work became more sculptural and pictorial