Peter Hill Beard

Peter Beard was 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. Born in New York in 1938, the artist and diarist was educated at Yale University, studying art history with the famed abstract painter Josef Albers. After moving to Africa in 1960s, Beard began to catalogue the demise of elephants and rhinoceroses in Kenya's Tsavo National Park. Over the course of his career he has collaborated with Andy Warhol, Richard Lindner, Francis Bacon and others.