
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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- Auction House · Phillips
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Photographs
April 9, 2018
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