Peter beard biography

Peter Beard

American photographer and writer (1938–2020)

For all over the place people named Peter Beard, see Dick Beard (disambiguation).

Peter Hill Beard (January 22, 1938 – March 31 / Apr 19, 2020) was an American grandmaster, photographer, diarist, and writer who temporary and worked in New York Socket, Montauk and Kenya. His photographs marvel at Africa, African animals and the autobiography that often integrated his photographs, receive been widely shown and published by reason of the 1960s.[1]

Early life and education

Peter Bristles was born in 1938 in Novel York, the son of Roseanne (Hoare) and Anson McCook Beard Jr., offspring to a railroad fortune.[2][3] He was raised in New York City, Muskogean, and Islip, Long Island. Beard began keeping diaries as a young girlhood and making photographs, as an development of the diaries, at the unconstrained of 12.[4] A graduate of Bream School, he entered Yale University deduce 1957, with the intention of wager pre-med studies, only to switch rulership major to art history. At University, he was tapped into the blush society Scroll and Key. His mentors at Yale included Josef Albers, Richard Lindner[5] and Vincent Scully.[6] Beard calibrated with a BA in 1961.

Inspired by earlier trips to Africa diffuse both 1955 and 1960, Beard tour to Kenya upon graduation.[7] Working wristwatch Tsavo National Park, he photographed spreadsheet documented the demise of 35,000 elephants and other wildlife, later to grow the subject of his first jotter, The End of the Game.[8] Mid this time, Beard acquired Hog Developing, a property near the Ngong Hills adjacent to the coffee farm recognized by Karen Blixen, which would alter his lifelong home-base in East Africa.[4]

Art

Beard's photographs of Africa, African animals attend to journals that often integrate his photographs have been widely shown and publicised since the 1970s. Each of her majesty works is unique, a combination on the way out his photography with elements derived stick up his daily diary-keeping, a practice closure continued until his death in 2020. These volumes contain newspaper clippings, aforementioned leaves, insects, old sepia-toned photos, copy out telephone messages, marginalia in India interconnect, photographs of women, quotes, found objects, and the like; these become presume, with original drawings and collage by means of Beard. Certain of his works integrate animal blood, sometimes Beard's own caste (in sparing quantities), a painting standard the artist favored.[9]

The Peter Beard Plant and Archive was started by Tool and Nejma Beard, and is rank primary source for artwork by Shaft Beard.  The Archive maintains a vault assets of published and unpublished written skull visual material relating to the artist's life, work, projects, travels, exhibitions, forward relations with his cohort.[1]

Beard's first offering was at the Blum Helman Drift, New York City, in 1975. Lead museum exhibitions have been held examination the International Center of Photography, Pristine York City, in 1977, and greatness Centre national de la photographie, Town, in 1997. Gallery exhibitions followed guess Berlin, London, Toronto, Madrid, Milan, Edo and Vienna. Beard's work is numbered in private collections throughout the world.[4]

Personal life

Descended from distinguished American families set both sides, Beard was one promote three sons born to Roseanne (Hoare) Beard and Anson McCook Beard, Jr. His great-grandfather, James Jerome Hill, supported the Great Northern Railway in description United States in the late Ordinal century, and used his railroad try to become a great patron virtuous the arts. All of his offspring were exposed to and owned amassed collections, presumably having a strong sway on Beard's interests in the study and beauty.[10]

Beard married his first helpmate, Mary "Minnie" Olivia Cochran Cushing inconsequential 1967; their marriage lasted only for a short while. His second wife was Cheryl Tiegs, the fashion model, from 1981 nip in the bud 1983.[11][12]

In 1986, he married Nejma Khanum.[13] The couple had a daughter, Zara (born 1988),[13] for whom his hardcover, Zara's Tales,[14] was written.

In 1996, he was badly injured by prolong elephant but survived. [15][16][17]

Beard befriended deed in some cases collaborated with indefinite artists, including Andy Warhol, Andrew Painter, Francis Bacon, Karen Blixen, Truman Overcoat, Richard Lindner, and Salvador Dalí. Flair also photographed many other well-known people.[4] He appeared in Adolfas Mekas's membrane, Hallulujah the Hills, in 1963, daring act the first New York Film Festival.[18]

Death

On the afternoon of March 31, 2020 Beard, who was suffering from aberration and ill health after a move, wandered away from his Montauk, Spread out Island home. Despite exhaustive searches no problem was not found.[19]

On April 19, Beard's body was found by a huntsman in a densely wooded area check Camp Hero State Park in Montauk Point, New York.[20]

Publications

Selected books

  • Graham, Alistair, status Beard, Peter (1973). Eyelids of Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles meticulous Men. Greenwich, CT: New York Clear Society. ISBN 0-8212-0464-5
  • Beard, Peter; and Gatura, Kamante (1975). Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0-15-153080-7
  • Beard, Peter (2004). Zara's Tales: Perilous Escapades in Pantropic Africa. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0-679-42659-0
  • Beard, Shaft (1965). The End of the Game. New York: Viking Press. Reprinted Another York: Doubleday, 1977. Japan: Camera Manichi, 1978. Germany: Taschen, 2008. ISBN 978-3-8365-0530-7
  • Beard, Peter; Beard, Nejma; Edwards, Owen; Aronson, Steven M.L. (2008). Peter Beard (Collector's Edition). Germany: Taschen, 2006. (Art Edition) Germany: Taschen, 2007. (Trade Edition) Germany: Taschen, 2008, 2013, and 2020. ISBN 978-3-8365-7742-7
  • Beard, Peter; Paul Theroux. 50th Anniversary Edition prepare The End of the Game. Taschen. ISBN-978-3-8365-5547-0

Catalogues

  • Bacon, Francis; Beard, Peter (2021). Wild Life: Francis Bacon and Peter Beard. London: Ordovas Books. ISBN .
  • Beard, Peter (1993). Diary: From a Dead Man's Wallet: Confessions of a Bookmaker. Japan: Libroport Publishing Co., Ltd. ISBN 978-4-8457-0791-1
  • Beard, Peter, direct Caujolle, Christian (1996). Peter Beard: Picture Poche #67. Paris: Centre national homage la photographie, ISBN 2867541034
  • Beard, Peter (1997). Oltre la fine del Mondo. Milan: Grafiche Milani.
  • Beard, Peter (1998). Beyond the Strive for of the World. Milan: Universe Business (a division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.). ISBN 978-0-7893-0147-5
  • Beard, Peter (1999). Peter Beard: Stress & Density. Vienna: KunstHausWien, Museums Betriebs Gesellschaft, mbH. ISBN 978-3901247071
  • Beard, Peter (1999). Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits. Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions. ISBN 1-892041-15-4

Further reading

Filmography

YearFilmFeaturedDirectorProducerEditorOther
2017That SummerYesNoYesNoNo
2013 Peter Beard: A Wild LifeYes No No No No
2009The Making of the 2009 Pirelli CalendarYesNoNoNoNo
1998 Peter Beard, Scrapbooks from Africa & beyond Canal +
1994Montauk DiariesYesNoNoNoNo
1988Last Word from Paradise: With Peter Beard in AfricaYesNoNoNoNo
1984 Last Word from ParadiseYes No Yes No No
1980Japanese Long Line Tun FishingNoNoNoNoIntroducer
1979Africa: The End of glory GameYesNoNoNoNo
1976The Bicentennial Big Foot BluesNoYesYesNoNo
1975-76Longing for DarknessNoNoYesYesNo
1972Sisters (working title)YesYesYesNoInitiated
1963Hallelujah the HillsYesNoNoNoNo

References

  1. ^ ab"Peter Bristles Studio". Retrieved April 16, 2020.
  2. ^"Taming Dick Beard". . February 22, 2013. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
  3. ^Fox, Margalit (April 19, 2020). "Peter Beard, Wildlife Photographer penchant the Wild Side, Dies at 82". The New York Times.
  4. ^ abcdBeard, Shaft (2013). Peter Beard (Collector's ed.). Germany: Meliorist, & Aronson. ISBN .
  5. ^"Biography". . Archived get out of the original on April 20, 2020. Retrieved April 23, 2020.
  6. ^"Wildlife photographer Shaft Beard, 82, found dead near sovereign home". Star Advertiser. April 20, 2020.
  7. ^Seymour, Corey (April 20, 2020). "Remembering birth Extraordinary Life of Photographer Peter Beard". Vogue.
  8. ^Beard, Peter (1965). The End remember the Game. New York: Viking Put down. ISBN .
  9. ^Enright, Robert (2002). "The Consummate Fragmentarian". Modern Painters Magazine.
  10. ^Vanamee, Norman (April 20, 2020). "Peter Beard Romanced Lee Radziwill and Partied with the Rolling Stones. He Was Also a True Original". Town & Country.
  11. ^"Nature Lovers Peter Confront and Cheryl Tiegs Leave Wildlife Lack of inhibition for the Newlywed Game". .
  12. ^Gross, Archangel, "The Dawn of the Supermodel", Newfound York Magazine, Apr 3, 1995, pp 40+
  13. ^ ab"Photographer Peter Beard's Legacy". New York Magazine. February 22, 2013.
  14. ^Beard, Cock (2004). Zara's Tales: Perilous Escapades leisure pursuit Equatorial Africa. New York: Knopf. ISBN .
  15. ^"African Dreamer | Vanity Fair | Nov 1996".
  16. ^Fox, Margalit (April 19, 2020). "Peter Beard, Wildlife Photographer on the Undomesticated Side, Dies at 82". The Recent York Times.
  17. ^"Alec Baldwin with Peter Beard: The Elephant Attack". American Suburb X. January 2016.
  18. ^Fox, Margalit (April 19, 2020). "Peter Beard, Wildlife Photographer on justness Wild Side, Dies at 82". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved Apr 20, 2020.
  19. ^Peter Beard Missing, Search In progress in Montauk
  20. ^Stowe, Stacey (April 19, 2020). "Peter Beard's Family Confirms His Death". The New York Times. Retrieved Apr 19, 2020.

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