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Peter Beard: Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond is a colorful and definitive portrait of a man of all seasons, a man in love with people and places, a passionate man, an obsessed man constantly passing from one dimension to another. The book and film follow the inner drama of one of the great creative spirits. Like the colorful marginalia of the notebooks he’s kept since his youth, it is collage drawn from life itself. Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond reveals a mixture of seriousness and wit, and rests upon Peter Beard’s skills as a storyteller. A person cannot experience the intensity of life such as Beard has—suffer such scrapes and bruises associated with the adventurer’s life—without being lively company.
A series of incisive and never before published interviews by British journalist Edward Behr form the backbone of Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond that takes viewers to three continents. Beard lives in the present and here we are offered a rare experience to observe how he captures the essence of each moment. Marked by a sense of intimacy and sincerity, Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond shows Beard at work shooting nudes and fashion, with his family and friends, the native Kenyans he lived near and works with or just one-on-one, in candid and revealing scenes that underscore his life’s work.
In Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond, Beard’s adventures and the substance of his work are united as one. The iconic photographs of his legendary past are revisited and for the first time we read and hear the stories about the making of Beard’s first book End of the Game, his appearance in the underground classic, "Hallelujah the Hills," his fortuitous meeting with British painter, Francis Bacon, and his youthful acquaintance with Karen Blixen. Beard’s epic notebooks, bound with ink, blood, photographs and the detritus of life on the road are matched here by his recollections of the remnants of Kenya’s colonial past.
A series of incisive and never before published interviews by British journalist Edward Behr form the backbone of Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond that takes viewers to three continents. Beard lives in the present and here we are offered a rare experience to observe how he captures the essence of each moment. Marked by a sense of intimacy and sincerity, Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond shows Beard at work shooting nudes and fashion, with his family and friends, the native Kenyans he lived near and works with or just one-on-one, in candid and revealing scenes that underscore his life’s work.
In Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond, Beard’s adventures and the substance of his work are united as one. The iconic photographs of his legendary past are revisited and for the first time we read and hear the stories about the making of Beard’s first book End of the Game, his appearance in the underground classic, "Hallelujah the Hills," his fortuitous meeting with British painter, Francis Bacon, and his youthful acquaintance with Karen Blixen. Beard’s epic notebooks, bound with ink, blood, photographs and the detritus of life on the road are matched here by his recollections of the remnants of Kenya’s colonial past.
Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond establishes the context in which Peter Beard came to Kenya and made his home there. On Lake Rudolph, the world’s largest desert lake, Beard tells us of the months he spent there studying crocodiles as a young man. At Hog Ranch, in the suburbs of Nairobi, viewers see how Beard lives with his pictures, paintings, friends and animals. In the United States, Beard walks the streets of Manhattan in a blazer, sari and sandals, hardly recognizing his city, telling us why he desired another place. On the beaches of Montauk, he reminiscences about the decadent 1970s, Warhol, the Factory and Pop Art. The photographs shown and described in Scrapbooks From Africa and Beyond record Beard’s milieu, the eras he survived, as well as the bygone past which drew him to the "dark continent" in the first place.
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Photographs by Guillaume Bonn
Interview by Edward Behr
Accompanied by Companion 54-minute film on DVD directed by Jean-Claude Luyat and
Guillaume Bonn
Interview by Edward Behr
Accompanied by Companion 54-minute film on DVD directed by Jean-Claude Luyat and
Guillaume Bonn
Film narrated by award-winning actress, Charlotte Rampling, with rare footage of Francis Bacon, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John F. Kennedy, Jr. and Mick Jagger among numerous others.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good collector's item,
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This review is from: Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond (Hardcover)
This book has mainly black and white photographs of Peter Beard: working, taking shots of/directing either Kenyans or models on photo shoots, standing alongside the models, working on his great collages (which is interesting), injured, talking during an interview, a few photos of the coast and his house in Montauk and some others. The photos in this book are not necessarily fabulous photos, but they are growing on me, because they show Beard in action on the other side of the lens.What makes this book stand out to me is the long 30 page interview with Beard at the center of the book and the 54 minute dvd at the back. They make "Scrapbooks" worth buying if you're a Beard fan. In the interview you get an insight into what makes Peter Beard tick: his mind, passions, thoughts on his career, work, luck and life, people he has met, inspirations, opinions on Africa etc.. The accompanying dvd (a pleasant surprise as I was not made aware that it was included) shows a film, which is celebrated in many parts of the world, but which I had never heard of in the U.K., and which is "the definitive interview of record on Peter Beard." Initially I expected more images of Beard working out in the bush photographing animals (not models); glimpses of his famous scrapbooks; or of his home Hog Ranch (i.e. does he collect tusks and bones? Is he a spartan man or a collector? I respect that he is a private man, though and I am probably just too nosy). When I first leafed through this book I was mildly disappointed and felt somewhat cheated. HOWEVER, once I discovered and read the interview and watched the dvd, I did not regret buying "Scrapbooks" at all. It's not every day/year that you get a hold of an interview with Beard. You have to know where and in which country to look if he ever gives one etc. etc.. As a fan of his work I find "Scrapbooks" insightful and fascinating. I see this book as a necessary part of my collection of his books, even if the photos aren't what I expected [...]. I believe that in years to come this, too, will be a Peter Beard classic. I should add that this book has a great blood-red hardback cover with a mock-lizard design.
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3.3 out of 5 stars (3 customer reviews) 6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Extremely disappointing,
By J. Johnson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond (Hardcover)
Peter Beard is such a wonderful photographer that I was very disappointed when I received this book. I thought this would be more of a coffee table book containing lush photos of Africa, but instead it's a compilation of his shooting models in Africa and lots of photos of him. I blame myself for not getting a better sense of the contents prior to ordering, but nonetheless a disappointment. The printing quality and paper choice also contributed to a less than interesting book. Dull and not beautiful.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
This book is photos of Beard, an excellent, in-depth interview, and a DVD on Peter Beard,
By Den NC USA "Den" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond (Hardcover)
I warily ignored these two reviews above, the way a hunter might a distant roaring, and ordered the book.My opinion, having avidly read the interview of Beard that is the text of the book, is that the reviewer J. Johnson is accurate in his comment, "I blame myself for not getting a better sense of the contents prior to ordering...". I disagree on all his other points. The book is not by Peter Beard, nor shows his own photographs, but is three things - 1. a series of photographs by Guillaume Bonn, mostly of Beard doing his art or photography; 2. a long and incisive interview by Edward Behr with Peter Beard, about Beard's life, photography, Africa, losing his Long Island home, and his views on the world and the living. It is wonderful, chilling, and the meat of this book. I think it is well worth the price for this interview alone; 3. The DVD - Peter Beard: Scrapbooks From Africa & Beyond (1998) which can be purchased separately, info at: [...] The film can be appreciated, or panned, as it was at: [...] The book itself originally cost $55. My used copy cost under $15. I am very happy with the knowledge that I have gained by buying it, and I still admire the iconoclast explorer and adventurer Peter Beard. Also, the quality of the paper is heavy, dull stock that is fine for the smaller size photos that it presents. The interview suffers not one wit from the fine dull stock. The cover is somewhat tasteless burgundy-colored fake lizard skin, I assume. An excellent review of the book is at: [...] The book is never dull, and is not really beautiful, as was Peter Beard's view of the world of Africa, it's people and its wild life. However, his did love beautiful women, and his life was not dull. 3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
fun and beautifull,
By Diego Montero Espina "diego" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Peter Beard: Scrapbooks from Africa and Beyond (Hardcover)
The last romantic, with all the seedy glamour of one who touched the U S of A's top society, moved in the Warhol and Bacon scene and stil had his own place and work out of the maistream. He's an artist who doesn't artsyfart about himself, although this is about himself. He takes importance out of canonised truth's of africa(most animal (game) reserve Ngos would kill him) and model glamour. Although most people who in some way know him dismiss him as a druged arse he managed (at least in this book and dvd) to live with beauty and rugged romanticism in a realm where most of us haven't had the courage. Althesame I got the feeling that something is somewhat lacking, maybe some depth but it is a beautifull, beautifull book.
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