A vital chronicler of the past few decades, Peter Beard has photographed Jacqueline Kennedy, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, Karen Blixen, Salvador Dali, and many others. This limited edition exhibition catalogue contains a wealth of his photographic portraits.
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A vital chronicler of the past few decades, Peter Beard has photographed Jacqueline Kennedy, Truman Capote, Andy Warhol, Karen Blixen, Salvador Dali, and many others. This limited edition exhibition catalogue contains a wealth of his photographic portraits.
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Add this copy of Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits to cart. $325.99, good condition, Sold by bacobooks rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Garden Grove, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Arena Editions.
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Fine. Curated by Peter T. Tunney, with an Essay by Anthony Haden-Guest. Profusely illustrated in black & white and color. 4to, brown pebbled cloth with inset photographic label. San Francisco: Arena Editions, 1999. First Edition. Fine.
Add this copy of Fifty Years of Portraits to cart. $500.00, very good condition, Sold by The Chatham Bookseller rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Madison, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by Arena Editions.
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Near Fine. No Dj as Issued. 8" X 10" Signed and Inscribed By the Author 205 pp. Brown leatherette cover with red lettering and a portrait. Author inscription and signature on the title page, as well as his traced handprint, all in blue ink. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. light bump to the upper corner of the front panel, otherwise like new. This volume is a beautiful collection of Beard's portraiture work. Beard's photographs capture the mysterious, the erotic, the strange and the wonderful. He also incorporates elements of collage, leaving his own mark on his photographs.
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First edition of this classic monograph. Quarto, original leatherette cover. illustrated throughout. Elaborately signed and inscribed by Peter Beard in the year of publication, with his left hand imprint added. In fine condition, bookplate opposite the inscription. Preface by Peter T. Tunney and with an introduction by David Fahey. Essay by Anthony Haden-Guest. In this book cataloguing 50 years of Peter Beard's photography, essayist Peter Tunney offers an interesting perspective on Beard's work: "Above all, Peter Beard is a collector, the camera only one method to his madness, a mere tool for accumulating his relished subject matter, the evidence of a life lived, all stuffed into a diary, or any book for that matter. Peter once remarked to me, 'I never save a book unless I have something glued in it. '" Beard's photos are collages of lists, of reference points; when he shows in a gallery, he insists that a mixed tape of music is played to amplify and add a layer of sound to his pictures. The texture in his photo collages is rich, and the layers are thick. The elements he employs create a whole vision of his work: Africa, Andy Warhol, Francis Bacon, the Kennedys, elephants, Montauk, Mick Jagger, blood, crocodiles, things cut out of their context and put in new ones--the picture begins to form. Fifty years' worth of work is collected in this book, expressed in faces readers may recognize and some they won't; his adventures; and his years at Hog Ranch in Africa. Somehow these diverse points of reference come together in their differences and illustrate completely Peter Beard's fascinating work and life.
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Fine. No dust jacket as issued. First edition, first and only printing. A rare association copy, boldly signed, dated ("1999, " the year of publication) and inscribed by Beard to American actress Suzanne Pleshette and her husband Thomas J. "Tommy" Gallagher, III, "Greetings to Tommy and Suzanne, @ Xmas '99, X X X Peter (Beard), NYC, NBI, etc..." in black ink, with his left handprint pressed with red acrylic paint across the half-title page. Hardcover. Brown 'leatherette' covered boards with tipped-in plate on the front cover and debossed title; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs, photomontages and collages with hand-written texts, photographs, paintings and drawings by Peter Beard. Preface by Peter T. Tunney. Introduction by David Fahey. Essay by Anthony Haden-Guest. 206 pp. (including one 2-page gatefold) with numerous four-color plates, beautifully printed by EBS, Verona, Italy. 10-1/4 x 8-1/4 inches. Includes five additional postcard invitations and announcements for Peter Beard exhibitions. Published on the occasion of the 1999 exhibition Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits, curated by Peter T. Tunney, at the Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles. Out of print. Very scarce. Fine. A Near Mint copy. From the publisher: "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." Signed by Author.
Add this copy of Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits to cart. $5,027.00, good condition, Sold by Found Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from AUSTIN, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1899 by Arena Editions.