Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
Christopher Wallace, "Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard"
English | ISBN: 0063066416 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
English | ISBN: 0063066416 | 2023 | 288 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination
Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and inspired both because of his work and his legendary lifestyle. A scion of American industry turned explorer of Africa and environmental advocate, Beard embodied the extremes of his time: grand adventurer and sexually voracious partier, friend of everyone from the Rolling Stones to Jackie Onassis to Andy Warhol to Karen Blixen. And Beard had a passion—probably more like an obsession—with the faults of the entire human experiment, with the ways in which our consumption of the world’s resources have come to consume us all.
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