Thoughts on Peter Beard?

You mean "confidante"?

Thanks, R1; I stand corrected.

Hawt!

Totally hot, totally with the Family Money. Photography jaunts across Africa in max colonialist luxury. Studio 54. Peering at William Burroughs across a mound of coke. Etc.

Now that’s a man!

I have one of his photographs. One of the blood smeared ones w pics of rhinos and his writing on it. It is beautiful. I was introduced to him by one of his old models at his apartment. Told him how much I truly loved his work. He just fuckin handed it to me and signed it. Sometimes life is good

In Montauk, that one diner in the main circle is where he used to go when younger. Paid his tab in artwork. It's all over the walls. Cool.

That's an awesome story r6!

R6 = charlie

I'm not "Charlie". Who is that. R6 here

Peter Beard was quite the "Marketeer."

When the then unknown model "Iman" exploded upon the fashion world in the mid-70's, he'd 'marketed' a story (farce) about how he'd 'discovered' her in the "African Velt," where she was a nearly wild "Masai Princess," never having seen a 'white man' before his accidentally happening upon her.

Turns out he was actually stalking the University of Nairobi (where she was a Poly-Sci student) for young ingenues to photograph. (Her father was a diplomat to Saudi Arabia, and her mother was a doctor.)

His diaries or whatever those books are that he made are really pretty amazing. I'd have written him off as a vacuous rich pretty boy if it weren't for those.

His nephew Alex is quite the artist. I have a couple of his pieces

Affected.

Trips to Africa in 1955 and 1960 piqued his interests and after graduating from Yale, he returned to Kenya via Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) in Rungstedlund, Denmark. She was the author of Out of Africa, Shadows In the Grass, Gothic Tales and Mottos In My Life. Beard met Blixen through his cousin Jerome Hill. In the early 60s he worked at Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, during which time he photographed and documented the demise of over 35,000 elephants and 5000 Black Rhinos and published two The End of the Game books (1965 & 1977).

He licked my pudenda. Real good.

He tasted both of the Bouvier sisters' pussies.

R15. Yes, Blixen's book was very good. Also read Beryl Markham's account of said period, "West With The Night." Her metaphors and imagery of Africa are even more incredible.

A "Must Read." Enjoy,

(B. Markham had befriended Baroness Blixen during this period; she was also a former lover of Denys'.)

r12 Silver spoon adrenaline junkies with a whiff of intelligence service are a dime a dozen in that generation. With access to renowned mentors, high end equipment, and white male privilege of course they'll produce something decent.

I had no idea he was a scion or married to Minnie Cushing.

They don't get more white male privileged than this dude.

Dreamboat!

A WASP GOD! yes they get to have them... well really just a demigod

Discovered Iman and brought her to the US.

Saw his blood-spattered, assemblage/collage/large-format photos on the slaughter of the elephants in person twice in different galleries. They're incredible. Beyond documentary, they are poetic art. But nobody listened.

Lee Radziwill said he had the body of an Adonis.

His work is doing quite well at auction. Quick tip: Buy before he dies. rices rise afterwards.

R25 - Good looking man, but Adonis? No.

Incredibly good-looking man, especially for his day--when r27's and OP's photos were taken, men did not work out, so his body was remarkable.

He's pretty creepy as a human being, though--he lived a gross faux-colonialist lifestyle (pretending he was Denys Finch-Hatton), and his photos are only mediocre.

Hot to death!

R28 - just not true. Do you think high school, collegiate and professional sports just started happening when you discovered the gym?

I mean the vast majority of men, r30.

EXACTLY R19. Total rich straight white male privilege. In reality, a complete mediocrity. Of course the DL queens love him.

Babe Paley, how were you related to his wife, Minnie?

Well, typical rich straight white male privilege prefers the country club. Typical rich straight males of color prefer Kardashian-land--they're not teaching in the inner city or anything, in case you hadn't noticed. Peter Beard preferred the bush, and he preferred it as in, loved it, and he wasn't running a farm operation or a factory concern out there.

His recent years haven't been a pretty story, but I can't remember the details. He returned to the US and was living out on Long Island or some such. There's a long piece available online about it, probably from Vanity Fair. It had something to do with the women in his life fighting over rights to his stuff, or exploiting his stuff with galleries or something like that.

He's aged well for someone who is almost 80.

He sure was hot back in the day. I would have dropped trou for him.

Once found a DVD about him which justly celebrated the photogenecity of his life. (There was an interesting-to-me artistic friendship with Francis Bacon.)

As I recall, fire destroyed his property in Montauk (priceless artefacts lost); and later he suffered a stroke. Each of which he came through. Quite the life.

He looks like a high end Channing Tatum lol

[quote]As I recall, fire destroyed his property in Montauk (priceless artefacts lost); and later he suffered a stroke. Each of which he came through. Quite the life

I once stayed in his house - but he wasn't actually there. Not flash at all. Very low key place. It had its own private beach.

Yes, much of his stuff had been destroyed in a fire. He was also badly attacked by one of his beloved elephants.

Shit, I had no idea there was a record of the incident. Gurl, please...

Is he cut or uncut?

r34 there's always a black sheep in privileged families who will eschew the country club in favour of the exotic--the hunting lodge, the photo blind, etc.

[quote] the photo blind

What?

r42 a tent or shelter hunters and photographers use to disguise themselves while shooting wildlife.

Usually only professionals and these slumming jet set types with lenses as long as my arm use these set-ups.

Peter scored some major pussy in his day. Jackie O used to have him vacation on Skorpios to provide JFK, Jr. a male influence. Surprised he never wrote a kiss and tell memoir.

[quote]Surprised he never wrote a kiss and tell memoir.

Gurl, please. He's not some tacky reality show bitch. Have you even read this thread?

R45. No shit!

Very hot! Didn’t need a gym. We all could only be so lucky to have his looks and pedigree.

R45, Arthur Laurents, Gore Vidal, Frank Langella, Tommy Tune, Tab Hunter, etc. all wrote revealing memoirs and none of them could be called tacky reality show bitches.

Fast forward to April 2020 and he has exited the world.

What an interesting life he lead.

Calling DL Grammar Queens, I need a ruling here, please.

Lead/Led for R49, thank you for your prompt attention to this matter.

Oh, thoughts on Peter Beard. Um, attractive man, stupid wife (Tiegs) massive coke-head.

But he was considered quite glamorous back in the day.

My thoughts are that there is a current thread on him so this one did not need to be bumped up by r49.