138 Peter Beard, Collectors Limited Edition, Art Edition

Peter Beard
Photographer, collector, diarist, and writer of books Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of
art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolved into a serious career as an artist and
earned him a central position in the international art world. He was painted by Francis Bacon, painted
on by Salvador Dalí, and made diaries with Andy Warhol; he toured with Truman Capote and the
Rolling Stones, created books with Jacqueline Onassis and Mick Jagger—all of whom are brought to
life, literally and figuratively, in his work. As a fashion photographer, he took Vogue stars like
Veruschka to Africa and brought new ones—most notably Iman—back to the U.S. with him. His love
affair with natural history and wildlife, which informs most of his work, began when he was a
teenager. He had read the books of Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) and after spending time in Kenya and
befriending the author, bought a piece of land near hers. It was the early 1960s and the big game
hunters led safaris, with all the colonial elements Beard had read about in Out of Africa characterizing
the open life and landscape, but the times were changing. Beard witnessed the dawn of Kenya’s
population explosion, challenged finite resources, and stressed animal populations—including the
starving elephants of Tsavo, dying by the tens of thousands in a wasteland of eaten trees. trees. So he
documented what he saw—with diaries, photographs, and collages. He went against the wind in
publishing unique and sometimes shocking books of these unsentimental observations. He went
against the wind in publishing unique and sometimes shocking books of these works. The corpses
were laid bare; the facts were carefully written down sometimes in type, often by hand, occasionally
with blood.

Spilling out over the pages of this massive tome, Peter Beard’s collages are reproduced as a group
for the first time at the size they have always meant to be seen, many of them as foldouts. Hundreds
of smaller-scale works and diaries fill the remaining spreads—magnified to show every detail, form
Beard’s meticulous handwriting and old-master-inspired drawings to stones and bones and bits of
animals pasted to the page. Available in both Art and Collector’s editions, this opulent and beautifully
crafted limited edition—complete with wooden stand — is a work of art in itself.

The artist: Born in New York City, Peter Beard (born 1938) began keeping diaries and taking
photographs as an adolescent. After graduating from Yale, he developed a keen interest in Africa; in
the early 1960s he worked at Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, during which time he photographed and
documented the demise of over 35,000 elephants and published his first book, The End of the Game.
His first show at Blum Helman Gallery came in 1975, and was followed in 1977 by the landmark
installation of elephant carcasses, burned diaries, taxidermy, African artifacts, books and personal
memorabilia at New York’s International Center for Photography. In addition to creating original
artwork, Beard has also worked as a fashion photographer and collaborated on projects with Andy
Warhol, Andrew Wyeth, Richard Lindner, Terry Southern, Truman Capote, and Francis Bacon. In
1996, shortly after Beard was trampled by an elephant, his first major retrospective opened at the
Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, France, followed by others in Berlin, London, Toronto,
Madrid, Milan, Tokyo, and Vienna. He now lives in New York City, Montauk Point, and Kenya with
his wife Nejma and daughter Zara.

The editor: Nejma Beard has been Peter Beard’s agent and the director of the Peter Beard Studio
since 2001. Since then she has curated and co-curated shows in Paris, London, Milan, and Los
Angeles, and assisted on the publication of Zara's Tales. David Fahey is co-owner of the Fahey/Klein
Gallery, Los Angeles. During his 31-year career in the field, he has collaborated on over 45 fine art
photography books. He is the co-vice president of the Herb Ritts Foundation and serves on the
Photography Advisory Council for the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The art director: Ruth Ansel is an award-winning art director known for her innovative design at many
of America's top fashion and cultural magazines since the 1960s. Ansel Design Studio (est. 1992) has
produced international fashion campaigns and books with photographers including Peter Beard,
Richard Avedon, and Annie Leibovitz.

The authors: Owen Edwards has written about photography for 30 years, for the American
Photographer, New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, The Village Voice, Saturday Review,
Vogue, Smithsonian magazine, and many other publications. Steven M. L. Aronson, a former book
publisher, is a writer and editor. He edited and published Peter Beard’s book Longing for Darkness
and wrote the T.V. special The End of the Game. He is the author of HYPE and the co-author of
Savage Grace.

De uitvoering van de Collector's Edition A en B
• Boek wordt in leer gebonden
• Wordt geleverd in een speciaal gemaakte houten kist
• XXL-Formaat: 34.5 x 50 cm + 5 uitklap pagina's
• Het boek bevat : 200 pagina's van de dagboeken en 300 pagina's collages
• Een apart exemplaar van een essay van de fotocriticus Owen Edwards
• Begeleidend deel, PB 2: beeld inhoud met de foto's erbij in klein afgedrukt, persoonlijke foto's en
vroeg werk van de kunstenaar, interview met de kunstenaar, een facsimile reprint van Beard’s 1993
handgeschreven essay over het uitverkochte eerste exemplaar van Blind Spot Magazine, uitgebreide
bibliografie, filmografie and lijst van tentoonstellingen
• Alle kleurenillustraties zijn "color-separated" en "reproduced in Pan4C", de meest geavanceerde
reproductietechniek van vandaag, die een ongevenaarde intensiteit en kleurengamma geeft

Collector's Edition
No. 1 – 250
• Limited to 250 individually numbered copies, each signed by Peter Beard
• Books No. 1-125 accompanied by the gelatin-silver print “Fayel Tall” (1987/2006). Printed on 50.8
cm x 40.64 (16 in. x 20 in.) paper and signed below the image by the artist.
• Sumptuous leather cover
• Packaged in a velvet-lined wood shipping crate