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Peter Beard — Orphaned Cheetah Cubs (Last Word from Paradise), Mweiga Park Headquarters, near Nyeri, Kenya, 1968 and Beside the carcass of a beast, 1909
Peter Beard

Orphaned Cheetah Cubs (Last Word from Paradise), Mweiga Park Headquarters, near Nyeri, Kenya, 1968 and Beside the carcass of a beast, 1909

Two photographic prints—one platinum and one gelatin silver—are transformed into a richly layered double-sided collage through Beard's signature embellishments of ink, pencil, paint, and affixed photographic fragments. Capturing orphaned cheetah cubs in Kenya's Mweiga Park and the haunting remnants of a fallen beast, the work weaves together images spanning decades to meditate on wildlife, loss, and the fragile boundary between life and death in Africa. Beard's obsessive, diary-like interventions blur the line between documentation and personal mythology, turning the photographs into dense, visceral records of a vanishing world.

Medium
One platinum print and one gelatin silver print with ink, pencil, paint and affixed gelatin silver prints, presented as a double-sided collage, executed later.

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April 9, 2018

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Peter Beard, Orphaned Cheetah Cubs (Last Word from Paradise), Mweiga Park Headquarters, near Nyeri, Kenya, 1968 and Beside the carcass of a beast, 1909

Two photographic prints—one platinum and one gelatin silver—are transformed into a richly layered double-sided collage through Beard's signature embellishments of ink, pencil, paint, and affixed photographic fragments. Capturing orphaned cheetah cubs in Kenya's Mweiga Park and the haunting remnants of a fallen beast, the work weaves together images spanning decades to meditate on wildlife, loss, and the fragile boundary between life and death in Africa. Beard's obsessive, diary-like interventions blur the line between documentation and personal mythology, turning the photographs into dense, visceral records of a vanishing world.

Medium
One platinum print and one gelatin silver print with ink, pencil, paint and affixed gelatin silver prints, presented as a double-sided collage, executed later.
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Phillips, New York, London, Hong Kong

Related themes

Double-Sided Format, Melancholic Mood, Photography, 20th Century, Mid Century Modern, Journal Art, Photographic Print, Postmodern Documentary, Male Artist, African Subject Matter, Documentary Style, Mixed Media Collage, Documentary Photography, 20th Century Photography, Wildlife Photography, American Male Photographer, American Artist, Wildlife Subject, Conservation Themes, Twentieth Century Art, African Landscape, Established Artist, Earth Tones, Somber Mood, Conservation Advocacy

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