Peter beard

The photographer, who died this week at 82, was an avatar of the romantic, adventurous, and elemental life.

Cheryl Tiegs and Peter Beard attends Scenery-Greenery Celebrity Cocktail Party on July 31, 1982 at Montauk Manor in Montauk, New York.

Whether photographing elephants or Mick Jagger, Beard approached the world with a spirit of inquiry and adventure. We look back on the work of a pioneer, who died earlier this month

Peter Beard (1938–2020) was an American artist and writer whose visceral documentary approach to artmaking garnered great critical acclaim. As the writer Terry Southern once described: ‘[Beard’s] artistry may be seen as an exquisite synthesis of three major sources: Dutch/Flemish, Picasso/Braque, and, by his own account, the dark savagery of Francis Bacon.’ Beard was born […]

Master photographer Peter Beard in Montaulk 1975 Mary Russell

Peter Hill Beard is an American artist, photographer, diarist, and writer who lives and works in New York City and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals, and the journals that often integrate his photographs have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.

Peter Beard is a worldly photographer and artist, but when it comes to style, he's an incredibly underrated individual. Here we profile his best ensembles to date.

Peter Beard creation of Jacqueline Onassis via One Part Gypsy, as above One of the joys of photography is seeing how others view the world. I recently came across the most amazing...and I really mean, amazing...book by Peter Beard. It the 'Art Edition', of which just a few hundred were made. Produced by TASCHEN, it sold for a cool £4500.00 per book. If you have seen the book, you will understand why. Who is Peter Beard? Where do I begin? Photographer, collector, diarist, writer and more who…

The photographer, playboy, and Warhol pal never seemed to care much about his legacy or making money. Now that he’s 75, his wife, Nejma, wants to change all that—even if it means clawing back work he used to pay off bar tabs and infuriating hi [...]

Peter Beard