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Wallace, Christopher (Author)
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Beard, Peter H. (Peter Hill), 1938-2020.
Wildlife photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Artists -- United States -- Biography.
Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
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Wallace, Christopher (Author)
Beard, Peter H. (Peter Hill), 1938-2020.
Wildlife photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Artists -- United States -- Biography.
Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
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Twentieth-century
man
: the
wild
life
of
Peter
Beard
/ Christopher Wallace.
by
Wallace, Christopher (Author)
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023.
Call #:
770.92 B368w
Subjects
Beard
,
Peter
H. (
Peter
Hill), 1938-2020.
Wildlife photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Photographers -- United States -- Biography.
Artists -- United States -- Biography.
Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780063066410 (hc)
Alternate title:
20th century
man
: the
wild
life
of
Peter
Beard
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiii, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Summary:
"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. Beard’s outsize
life
and character -- his death-defying documentation of both the endangered wildlife of Africa, and, closer to home, some of the world’s most beautiful women for a range of fashion magazines -- animate this lively but authoritative biography. The journalist Christopher Wallace, long fascinated by Beard’s artistic legacy, adventurous spirit, and hard-partying persona, came to know him well later in Beard’s
life
. Capturing the varied social and cultural scenes that
Beard
moved through with glamorous ease over five decades, Wallace also makes a powerful case for the lasting impact of his work. In
Twentieth-Century
Man
, Wallace has rendered this towering figure in all of his contradictions and complexities -- a deeply romantic and idiosyncratic personality, beloved by so many, whose sensibilities nonetheless remained firmly rooted in an era characterized by racist and colonialist attitudes. Stirring and visceral,
Twentieth-Century
Man
is the definitive portrait of
Peter
Beard
."--Publisher.
Genre:
Biographies.
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Biography
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