Peter Beard’s wild life
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His journalist friend Bob Colacello called him “half Tarzan, half Byron”. His New York Times obituary called him an “amorous, bibulous, pharmaceutically inclined man about town… to whom the word ‘wild’ was roundly applied.”
Peter Beard preferred to call himself “an escapist”. He was a photographer, adventurer and socialite who was at home among great beasts wherever he found them – be it Africa or Manhattan; be they elephants, rhinos and hippos, or Andy Warhol, Truman Capote and Mick Jagger.
Peter Beard preferred to call himself “an escapist”. He was a photographer, adventurer and socialite who was at home among great beasts wherever he found them – be it Africa or Manhattan; be they elephants, rhinos and hippos, or Andy Warhol, Truman Capote and Mick Jagger.
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