No. 94780457

Peter Beard - Fifty Years of Portraits - 1999
No. 94780457

Peter Beard - Fifty Years of Portraits - 1999
Peter Beard - Fifty Years of Portraits
Peter Beard studied art with Josef Albers at Yale University in New Haven from 1957 to 1961. He came from a wealthy family – his great-grandfather James Jerome Hill was the founder of the Great Northern Railroad – and could afford a life in the jet set; for example, he was friends with Truman Capote, who was supposed to document the USA tour of The Rolling Stones in 1972 for Jann Wenner, and was often seen with Bianca Jagger or Caroline Lee Radziwill, the sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
He became known for his series of images from Africa and his portrait photographs, including shots of David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Veruschka Countess of Lehndorff, Iman, and the Irish painter Francis Bacon, for whom he himself posed as a model several times.
As a fashion photographer, he worked for Vogue magazine.
Beard was married multiple times and undertook numerous adventurous trips through Africa, including systematically photographing dying and dead elephants in the years 1971/1972. His friend, Danish writer and Africa expert Karen Blixen, encouraged him to continue his stirring photographic work about the continent. He established his Hog Ranch in Kenya in 1961 and stayed in Africa for a total of 23 years.
He had been keeping a diary since his youth; it consists of book collages filled with drawings and glued elements. In a similar way, he also gave his recordings special expressiveness by augmenting them with animal blood and images, with newspaper clippings and stories.
The book is like new and has an art leather cover. First edition!
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