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Peter Beard was born in New York City in 1938. A childhood obsession with nature blossomed during summers spent in Tuxedo Park with his grandmother who gave him his first camera, a Voightländer. Taking pictures became a natural extension of the way he already preserved his memories in meticulously crafted diaries. At seventeen he went on a life-changing trip to Africa with Quentin Keynes, the explorer and great grandson of Charles Darwin, working on a film documenting rare wildlife including the white and black rhinos of Zululand.

Beard entered Yale as a pre-med student and in a class on population dynamics he formed his enduring hypothesis that humans are, in fact, the main disease. He switched his focus to art and began studying under Vincent Scully, Joseph Albers, and Richard Lindner. Beard’s insatiable desire to explore lured him back to Africa, and in lieu of completing his senior thesis at school, he mailed in his diaries from Kenya. His journals continue to be an essential part of his artistic output.

In the 60s Beard received a special dispensation from Pres

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His nickname was “Walkabout,” an apt tag for the irrepressible spirit that was Peter Beard, as comfortable amid wild game in Kenya as he was behind the velvet ropes of a wild club. In 82 years, he beat the odds many times. An elephant attack broke his pelvis in five places, and he blew enough cocaine to impress Keith Richards. So it was puzzling and tragic when his body was found in woods near his Montauk home last spring. There was no sign of foul play—he’d simply, most likely anyway, wandered off.

Peter Pan, Lord Byron, Tarzan, Casanova, Saint-Exupéry’s Petit Prince, Ernest Hemingway: All have been invoked to describe Beard. But there is no template for an original like Beard, who possessed an insatiable appetite for drugs and danger. His art was sometimes overshadowed by his attention-getting exploits, antics that should be considered “dust in the lion’s paw,” according to the writer and Beard friend Paul Theroux. The precincts that entranced him, and formed his lifelong work, were Africa and women.

He was a participatory artist, using his own blood sometimes, a touch of the

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Peter Beard

American photographer and writer (1938–2020)

For other people named Peter Beard, see Peter Beard (disambiguation).

Peter Hill Beard (January 22, 1938 – March 31 / April 19, 2020) was an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lived and worked in New York City, Montauk and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrated his photographs, have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.^[1]

Early life and education

Peter Beard was born in 1938 in New York, the son of Roseanne (Hoare) and Anson McCook Beard Jr., heir to a railroad fortune.^[2]^[3] He was raised in New York City, Alabama, and Islip, Long Island. Beard began keeping diaries as a young boy and making photographs, as an extension of the diaries, at the age of 12.^[4] A graduate of Pomfret School, he entered Yale University in 1957, with the intention of pursuing pre-med studies, only to switch his major to art history. At Yale, he was tapped into the secret society Scroll and Key. His mentors