BEARD, PETER
1938 New York - 2020 Montauk

Title: Camera Work Portfolio, 1960-1987.
Subtitle: 10-part.
Date: Later prints from 1998.
Technique: Gelatin silver print.
Depiction Size: 49 x 33,5cm.
Sheet Size: 50 x 40,5cm.
Notation: Signed, dated, titled and many inscribed with detailed notes in ink on recto or in the margin. Additionally verso with copyright stamp.
Number: 5/10.
Frame: Each framed.


Provenance:
- Camera Work Gallery, Berlin
- Private collection North-Rhine-Westphalia

- Peter Beard led an artist's life between extremes: glamour and danger
- The fight for species conservation became the photographer's personal concern
- Beard sensitively described and labelled his prints as more than documentations of the outside world: as testimonies to his turbulent inner life.