Synopsis
Art Edition No. 251-2500 Limited to 2,250 individually numbered copies, each signed by Peter Beard. Comes in a clamshell box with a wood book stand. XXL format: 200 pages of diaries and 300 pages of collages. Original essay by photo critic Owen Edwards. Companion volume, image index with captions for all images from main book, personal photos and early work of the artist, interview with the artist, a facsimile reprint of Beard's 1993 handwritten essay from the sold-out first issue of Blind Spot magazine, extensive bibliography, filmography and list of exhibitions. All color illustrations are color-separated and reproduced in Pan4C, the finest reproduction technique available today, which provides unequalled intensity and color range.
About the Author
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 1966, 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. 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. She met Peter Beard in Kenya in 1985 and they married soon thereafter. Their daughter Zara was born in 1988. David Fahey is co-owner of the Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. During his 31-year career in the field, he has collaborated on the production of over 45 fine art photography books. He is the vice president of the Herb Ritts Foundation, a member of the Association International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), and serves on the Photography Advisory Council for the J. Paul Getty Museum. Ruth Ansel is an award-winning art director known for her innovative work at some of the most influential and successful magazines in America since the 1960s, including Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, House & Garden, and Vogue. In 1992, she founded Ansel Design Studio and has continued her innovative approach to all aspects of design, producing photographic portfolios for The New Yorker, international fashion campaigns for Club Monaco, Karl Lagerfeld, Gucci, and Versace, and numerous books, including The End of the Game by Peter Beard, Dark Odyssey by Philipp Jones Griffith, The Sixties by Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus, and Women by Annie Leibovitz. Owen Edwards has written about photography for 30 years, for the New York Times Magazine, New York magazine, The Village Voice, Saturday Review, Vogue, Smithsonian magazine, and many other publications. He was the exhibitions critic for American Photographer magazine from 1978 to 1985. 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 Emmy Award-winning T.V. special The End of the Game. He is the author of HYPE and the co-author of the Edgar Award-winning Savage Grace.
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