Wild Man: The Life and Times of Peter Beard

In March 2020, Peter Beard disappeared into the woods near his Montauk home and, like an old bull elephant, lay down and died (the sort of end, his friends pointed out, he would have wanted). But the fascination with Beard continues, fueled by the expansiveness and contradictions of his life, the ferment around his artistic legacy, and our age old interest in the mysteries of creative inspiration and the lines—so blurred in Beard’s case—between life and art. As Philippe Garner, former head of international photography at Christie’s, put it, “The world doesn’t seem to create characters like that anymore. There’s… Read Full Article