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Peter Beard Biography

Peter Hill Beard is an American artist, photographer, diarist and writer who lives and works in New York City and Kenya. His photographs of Africa, African animals and the journals that often integrate his photographs have been widely shown and published since the 1960s.

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I think the camera is a wonderful machine, don't you? And not to take photographs in this century is crazy.

Cameras, Crazy, Take, Think, Thinking, Wonderful

I am a parasite off beauty.

Beauty, Parasite, Parasites

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

Diaries, Diary, Secret, Society, Useless

Photography should be redefined. It's largely technical. . . Photography is just unbelievably limiting. I always think of David Bailey and all the fashion photographers - they overlap, you can't always tell who did it. I don't really even like photography all that much. I just think it's so overdone.

Fashion, Overdone, Photography, Redefined, Technical, Thinking

I like things that don't look like you're in control. It's like life itself. You just learn how to benefit from accidents and chances that you take.

Accidents, Benefits, Chance, Life, Look, Looks

I had some highlight moments in the early '60s when I used to do a lot of rubbings. I used Afta; it's an amazing chemical. If you pour it on something and rub, you get amazing results. Before that, I used lighter fluid and, well, I've always liked blood. Everybody thinks I am very sick, but the thing is, blood is better than any ink or paint.

Blood, Chemical, Liked, Moments, Sick, Thinking

The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.

Constructively, Pick, Scab, Scabs, Whole, World

Being so pathetic, I don't read. I just. . . do things - writing out interviews you can't read, on pictures of footprints and things like that. I kind of like the idea of nailing the thing down and not really showing too much about it. There's just so much you can take for collage nowadays.

Footprint, Kind, Like, Take, Writing

I used to do horseback riding in the South, and it was just things I'd be pasting. I think my diaries was just an infantile desire to record things. I liked saving things instead of writing.

Desire, Diaries, Instead, Think, Thinking, Writing

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Foster Hewitt

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Harold Innis

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Jess Row

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Joan Lunden

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