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Peter Beard: Art Edition, Signed and Numbered from 251 to 2500 (Taschen Artist's Edition)
from: Taschen
Binding: Leather Bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783822826065
Edition: Collectors
ISBN: 3822826065
Label: Taschen
Manufacturer: Taschen
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 616
Publication Date: November 14, 2006
Publisher: Taschen
Studio: Taschen
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Editorial Review:
A stunning journey into the world of 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, which 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. 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 works. The corpses were laid bare; the facts were carefully written down sometimes in type, often by hand, occasionally with blood.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Tears
As I started to leaf through this epic; tears welled in my eyes; Tears for the the art, tears for the subject, tears for the artist and tears of joy.
The destruction of life has never been so beautiful.
Peter Beard is one of few artists whose life is art, in the truest sense.
Rating: - Peter Beard Tour De Force
Five Stars for the best Big Book effort
since Helmut Newton's SUMO.
If you can not afford Peter's six figure
art creations this is the way to go.. if?
you can find a copy for sale.
Additionally, a classic document of overpopulation's
tragic consequences for any species including our own.
When you have it get a glass of wine
and settle down for two hours of life
and death in another world.
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