1998
Reckless, uninhibited and brazen, photographer Peter Beard was, as The Washington Post put it, “as wild as the animals he photographed.” Beard produced some of the most beautiful images of wildlife ever captured on film.
Beard was born in 1938 in New York City. His great-grandfather was James J. Hill, founder of the Great Northern Railway. As a child, he spent his summers at his grandmother’s Tuxedo Park estate, where she gave him his first camera, a Voightländer. He used it to take pictures to accompany his diaries; Beard was a keen diarist throughout his life, amassing more than 100 volumes. At the age of 17, he took a life-changing trip to Africa with Quentin Keynes, Charles Darwin’s great-grandson, using his Voightländer to photograph wildlife.
After attending prestigious private schools such as Buckley and Pomfret, Beard entered Yale University in 1957 as a pre-med student. However, he soon turned his attention toward art, studying under architectural historian Vincent Scully, German artist Josef Albers and painter Richard Lindner. He graduated in 1961 with a degree in art history.
In the 1960s, Beard returned to Africa, where he met Out of Africa author Karen Blixen. Enamored by the continent’s natural beauty, he purchased Hog Ranch near Blixen’s coffee plantation in Kenya. While there, he received a special dispensation from President Uhuru Kenyatta to film, photograph and document the flora and wildlife at Tsavo National Park. This led to The End of the Game, published in 1965, which documented the demise of more than 35,000 starving elephants and 5,000 black rhinos.
Beard became renowned for his black-and-white and color photography, figurative photos and landscapes. He exhibited around the world, including at New York’s Blum Helman Gallery in 1975, the International Center of Photography in Manhattan in 1977, the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris in 1996 and Guild Hall in East Hampton in 2016.
Beard died in 2020 at the age of 82. His works remain in demand with collectors.
On 1stDibs, find original Peter Beard photography, mixed media work and prints.
Price Upon Request
Cheetah. Kenya
By Sheila Metzner
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is signed by the photographer and is printed using the Fresson printing process. Size varies.
Color
Price Upon Request
Cheetah. Kenya.
By Sheila Metzner
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is signed by the photographer and is printed using the Fresson printing process. Size varies.
Color
$10,113
H 35.44 in W 47.25 in D 0.2 in
Cheetah nursing babies, blackandhwite photography, Africa, Portrait, Wildlife
By Joachim Schmeisser
Located in München, BY
Edition of 12 More sizes on request Portrait of a Cheetah and her cubs. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the most sought-...
Archival Pigment
Cheetahs n.2 (Kenya) - Together - 20 x 24 in. - unframed
By William Chua
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This particular image at Kenya's Amboseli National Park. This is drawn from the archives of fine art photographer William Chua, an award winning photographer and FujiFilm ambassador in Asia, from Singapore, presented here exclusively. The essence of nature's beautiful creatures in flight and motion or in a solitary moment...
C Print
$10,113
H 37.8 in W 47.25 in D 0.2 in
Cheetah with babies, blackandhwite photography, Africa, Portrait, Wildlife
By Joachim Schmeisser
Located in München, BY
Edition of 12 More sizes on request Portrait of a spotting Cheetah and her cubs. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among the mos...
Archival Pigment
$5,750
H 38 in W 57 in D 0.1 in
Black and white print of a cheetah and her cub in the plains of East Africa
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"""Mother's Grace"" Black and white print of a cheetah and her cub in the plains of East Africa A mother cheetah looks out over her cub as they rest in the grassy plains of Kenya ...
Archival Pigment
Cheetah & Cubs Lying on Rock, Serengeti 2007
By Nick Brandt
Located in Sante Fe, NM
There is perhaps something more profoundly iconic, mythological even, about the animals of East Africa, as opposed to say, the Arctic or South America). And there is also something i...
Platinum
$11,778
H 59.06 in W 47.25 in D 0.2 in
Imani I, Cheetah, animal, wildlife, black and white photography, africa
By Joachim Schmeisser
Located in München, BY
Edition of 7 More sizes on request Portrait of the Cheetah Imani and one of her cubs. Joachim Schmeisser is represented by leading Galleries worldwide. His photographs are among th...
Archival Pigment
$4,878
H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 1.58 in
Imani I, animal, black and white photography, cheetah, Africa, wildlife
By Joachim Schmeisser
Located in München, BY
Edition No. 8/12 image size 28,5 x 35,6 cm signed and numbered Framed with mat and anti-reflex glass A beautiful portrait of a cheetah nursing her cub. Joachim Schmeisser is repres...
Archival Pigment
$95,183
H 51.5 in W 42 in
Cheetah & Cubs Lying on Rock, Serengeti – Nick Brandt, Africa, Rock, Sky, Animal
By Nick Brandt
Located in Zurich, CH
NICK BRANDT (*1966, England) Cheetah & Cubs Lying on Rock, Serengeti 2007 Archival Pigment Print Sheet 130.8 x 106.7 cm (51.5 x 42 in.) Edition of 8, plus AP Nick Brandt is a contemporary English photographer. His work focuses on the disappearing natural world. Since 2001, he has photographed the changing African continent and established a style of portrait photography of animals...
Archival Pigment
Peter Beard - Elephant's Embryo, Uganda, Platinum Print- Unsigned
By Peter Beard
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Elephant's Embryo, Uganda Aributed to Peter Beard/Unsigned The original photograph "unsigned" but documented by its inclusion in "Peter Beard - Fifty Years of Portraits, The End of the Game...
Platinum
Mursi RoadBlock, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia
By Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Title: Mursi RoadBlock, Omo River Valley, Ethiopia, 2001. Printed later 2005 Sheet size: 20 in. H x 24 in. W Image size: 14.8 in. H x 22. In W A signed, original print. Unframed Cyr...
Archival Pigment
Kenya, From the Mani- Cartes Postales series.
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series of photographs were taken for a European calendar. The idea was to create postcards with several countries on different continents, in the images the artist decided to cl...
Color, Archival Pigment
Diptych Arena de la Playa and Techos, Mexico, Vintage Photography. Framed
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Black and white photographs that reveal the various facets and aesthetic searches of the legendary Colombian photographer, recognized as the creator of memorable realistic, abstract ...
Other Medium, Black and White
Coconuts, Framed Black and White Nature Photography
By Iran Issa-Khan
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Coconuts by Iran Issa-Khan Black and white archival pigment print Image size: 19 in. H x 23 in. W Frame size: 36 in. H x 40 in. W Dated and signed by the artist. 2000 Born in Tehran and raised in Europe and the United States, Iran, Issa-Khan began her photography career in the late 1970s studying with William Minor, Jr. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Issa-Khan photographed Paulina Porizkova...
Archival Pigment
Ituango, Silver Gelatin Print
By Miguel Winograd
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist looks for a path between tangled branches. Reconfiguring a personal archive of diverse Colombian landscapes, experimenting with a variety of printing materials to reconstr...
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
