Price on Request $2,500
w/ Original 'Green Footprint' Watercolor Signed Peter Beard
[205] pp.
Arena Editions
1999
First Edition
10 1/4 x 8 1/4"
VG
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Published to accompany a show at the Fahey/ Klein Gallery. Features texts by Peter T. Tunney, Anthony Haden Guest, and David Fahey. Includes 175 four-color illustrations of Beard's collages, photographs and drawings.
"Throughout his remarkable life, photographer, naturalist, and raconteur Peter Beard has befriended and photographed some of the most prominent figures of our times. Portraiture is woven into the fabric of all of Beard's work, yet to date this relationship has never been carved out and explored. From his earliest attempts at expression as a child to the mania for travel and adventure that overtook Beard as a young man, and onward to Beard's most recent work on assignment, portraiture is a central thread of Beard's career. Beard's 'portraits,' however, rarely conform to the traditional format of this genre. Instead, they embody spontaneity, the moments shared with intimate friends, and the adventurous lives and experiences to which he has long been attracted. A vital chronicler of our times, he has created memorable images of such icons as Picasso, Francis Bacon, Karen Blixen, Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Salvador Dali, and Mick Jagger, along with the last great safari hunters, such as J.A. Hunter, Phillip Percival, and Cape-to-Cairo Grogan."