In memory of Peter Beard.
It’s long been a cliché to note, upon someone’s passing, that their death marks the end of an era. Peter Beard, however, had been living and working in, around, and at the ends of things for almost his entire life, seemingly up to his last moment.
, documented the quickly approaching twilight of free-roaming African wildlife as the continent and the world had known it for centuries, while it also closed the book on the notion of Africa as a kind of post-colonialist, romantic escape—a notion, as distilled in Isak Dineson’sHis groundbreaking fashion work, as published inand elsewhere, advanced the end of both studios and restraint in fashion photography as Beard turned Hog Ranch, his sprawling tented encampment in Kenya’s Ngong Hills...
Beard followed his father, a partner at a Wall Street brokerage house, through Pomfret and Buckley and Yale, but a trip to Africa with Charles Darwin’s great-grandson—and a searing encounter with Dinesen’s—seemed to chart his course for him. In short order, Beard, with the help of a special dispensation from Kenyan Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, bought 45 acres of rolling hills directly adjacent to the coffee farm owned by Karen Blixen .
He was then asked, somewhat oddly, about a range of heavy subjects including hope and pessimism, life and death. Beard, unflappable as ever, didn’t hesitate for a moment.
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