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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Peter Beard

Names:
Born: Peter Hill Beard 
Other: Peter H. Beard 
Dates:  1938, 22 January -
Born:  US, NY, New York
Active:  Africa
Gender:  Male
 
  
American photographer who works in Africa. His photographs are often combined with text and painting.

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Readings on, or by, individual photographers 
  
Beard, Peter, 1965, The End of the Game: The Old Africa and the New, (New York: The Viking Press) [LL_REF:2423 *B
  
Beard, Peter, 1979, The Last Word from Paradise, ([Tokyo: Seibu Museum of Art]) [LL_REF:2424 *B
  
Beard, Peter, 1990, The Eyelids of Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men [LL_REF:2425 *B
  
Beard, Peter, 1993, Diary, From a Dead Man's Wallet: Confessions of a Bookmaker, (Tokyo, Japan: Libro Port Publishing Co.) [LL_REF:2426 *B
  
Beard, Peter, 1999, Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits [LL_REF:2427 *B
  
Beard, Peter, 2004, Zara's Tales: Perilous Escapades in Equatorial Africa, (Knopf) isbn-10: 0679426590 isbn-13: 978-0679426592 [LL_REF:2429
  
Beard, Peter & Caujolle, Christian, 2009, Peter Beard (Photofile), (Thames & Hudson) isbn-10: 0500410968 isbn-13: 978-0500410967 [LL_REF:2430
  
Bowermaster, Jon, 1993, The Adventures and Misadventures of Peter Beard in Africa, (Bullfinch Press) isbn-10: 0821219073 isbn-13: 978-0821219072 [LL_REF:2431
  
Edwards, Owen et al., 2008, Peter Beard, (Taschen) isbn-10: 383650877X isbn-13: 978-3836508773 [2 volume set] [LL_REF:2428
  
 
  
If you feel this list is missing a significant book or article please let me know - Alan - alan@luminous-lint.com
 
Portraits 
  
If you have a portrait of this photographer or know of the whereabouts of one we would be most grateful. 
  
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Family history 
  
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch. 
  
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All photographs by this photographer 
  
 

Internet biographies

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Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer.Show on this siteGo to website
Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Evans, Martin Marix (Executive ed.) 1995 Contemporary Photographers [Third Edition] (St. James Press - An International Thomson Publishing Company) [Expensive reference work but highly informative.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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