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| Born | January 22, 1938 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | photographer |
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Peter Hill Beard (born 22 January 1938 in New York) is a photographer, artist, diarist and writer.
Personal life
Peter Beard's photographs of Africa, African animals, and the journals that often integrate his photographs have been widely shown and published since the 1970s. His grandmother, Ruth (Hill) Beard, married, as her second husband, Pierre Lorillard IV, who was a tobacco magnate and is credited with helping to popularize the tuxedo. A great-grandfather, James Jerome Hill, was founder of the Great Northern Railway in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. Railroads, in part, provided the infrastructure for colonization both in the United States and Africa, promoting expansion into undeveloped frontiers. James Jerome Hill made his fortune in the railroad business, leaving as legacy both money, colonialism and art to his great-grandson Peter. While not rejecting money from this trust, Beard laments the expansion of Western capitalism into Africa. James Jerome Hill was a great patron of the arts and all of his heirs were exposed to and owned great collections, thus having a great impact on Peter's interest in the arts and beauty.
Beard is famous not only for his photographs of endangered African elephants but also of supermodels and rock stars like Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Iman, Veruschka (Countess Vera von Lehndorff, an important artist in her own right), and Beard's first wife Minnie Cushing. He was married to the model Cheryl Tiegs. Beard is well known for his handsome looks.
Beard's milieu consisted of Andy Warhol, Jackie Onassis, Lee Radziwill, Truman Capote, and Bianca Jagger who all lived and rented houses in Montauk and Manhattan, NY in the 1970s and 1980s. Beard also had a close relationship with the late painter, Francis Bacon (painter). He photographed Bacon and was also the model for several of Bacon's paintings. Beard was traveling with and photographing the Rolling Stones on the infamous Rolling Stones 1972 tour of America.
Beard is married to Nejma Khanum. The couple has a daughter, Zara. His book, Zara's Tales was written especially for her.
Art
Beard channels most of his creative energy into his collage-work and diaries, which he began to compile in 1949 at the age of eleven. Peter Beard began keeping diaries as a child and after discovering a love of photography, used photographs to extend and enhance them. Beard read Karen Blixen's Out of Africa, which inspired him to travel to Africa in 1955. He took many pictures of the wildlife there and began putting them into collages and using animal blood and remains along with clippings to create his work.
In these works, he documents the history of his relationships with (among other things): Africa, Karen Blixen, the New York art scene, the fashion world, Hollywood, and the Kennedy administration. Page after page is covered with photographs of women, transcribed telephone messages, marginalia in India ink, clippings from the daily newspapers, dried leaves and insects, old sepia-toned photographs, drawings of animals and people by Kikuyu artists, quotes by Joseph Conrad, found objects, images of decaying elephant carcasses, and sometimes, Beard’s own blood.
Beard attended Yale University where he enrolled as a pre-medical student but quickly changed his major to art history. His first exhibition was at the Blum Helman Gallery in 1975. This switch to Art is not surprising considering the interest in art his family has had, for generations, both as artists and patrons of the arts. Later, after meeting Blixen in Denmark [1]), he purchased a 43-acre (170,000 m2) farm in Africa. This piece of land was adjacent to her Karen farm in Kenya, and to Giraffe Manor at the foot of the Ngong Hills — a property which he named "Hog Ranch".
Selected books
- Beard, Peter (2004). Zara's Tales from Hog Ranch: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0679426590
- Beard, Peter; Beard, Nejma; and Fahey, David (2008). Peter Beard. Köln: Taschen. ISBN 9783836508773
- Beard, Peter, and Caujolle, Christian (2008). Peter Beard. London and New York: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500410967
- Beard, Peter; Dinesen, Isak; and Gatura, Kamante (1975). Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0151530807
- Beard, Peter, and Tunney, Peter T (1999). Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits. Santa Fe, NM: Arena Editions. ISBN 1892041154
- Beard, Peter Hill (1965). The End of the Game. New York: Viking Press.
- Edkins, Diana, and Peter H. Beard (1995). Animal Attractions. New York: Abrams. ISBN 0810919591
- Graham, Alistair, and Beard, Peter (1973). Eyelids of Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society. ISBN 0821204645
- Turle, Gillies; Beard, Peter H.; and Greenberg, Mark (1992). The Art of the Maasai: 300 Newly Discovered Objects and Works of Art. New York: Knopf. ISBN 039458323X
- Wilson, R. L.; Martin, Greg; Beard, Peter H.; and Sandberg, Douglas (1998). Buffalo Bill's Wild West: An American Legend. New York: Random House. ISBN 0375501061
Further reading
- Bowermaster, Jon. The adventures and misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1993. ISBN 0821219073