50 YEARS OF PORTRAITS. (Signed by the artist)

First edition: 206 pages, chiefly coloured and black and white plates, brown rexine with a portrait of the artist laid down, titled in red on the upper cover and spine, a very good copy now preserved in a black cloth slip case.

Preface by the book's designer Peter T. Tunney with an introduction by David Fahey.

Signed by Peter Beard with the inscription: Warm greetings To Peter and Jenny at Xmas '99. All best Peter (Beard ) NYC and beyond.

Peter Beard is a contemporary American photographer best known for his documentary images of Africa arranged in unique photo collages that combine painting, drawing, and text. Part documentarian, part activist, Beard’s work captures the plight of a continent succumbing to industrialization. "The wilderness is gone," the artist has said, "and with it much more than we can appreciate or predict. We'll suffer for it." Born on January 22, 1938 in New York, NY the artist and diarist was educated at Yale University, studying art history with the famed abstract painter Josef Albers. After moving to Africa in the 1960s, Beard began to catalog the demise of elephants and rhinoceroses in Kenya’s Tsavo National Park. In 1975, while living in Nairobi, Beard spotted a beautiful university student named Iman, the photographer later brought her to New York, launching her career as a super model. Over the course of his career he has collaborated with Andy Warhol, Richard Lindner, Francis Bacon, and others. Beard currently lives and works between New York and Montauk, NY, and Nairobi, Kenya.http://www.artnet.com/artists/peter-beard/