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  Peter Beard: The Diary of Excess by Jerome D. This article contains sponsored links, I might earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Introduction Peter Beard (1938–2020, New York, USA) was one of the most unconventional figures in twentieth-century photography — a photographer, diarist and collage artist whose work blurred the boundaries between documentation and personal mythology. Raised in New York, Beard developed an early fascination with Africa after reading Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen . This fascination became a lifelong obsession. After studying art history at Yale, he traveled to Kenya in the early 1960s and eventually settled there, dividing his time between Africa and New York. Beard’s work is inseparable from his life. He photographed wildlife, landscapes and people — particularly in Kenya — while also documenting his own experiences through handwritten diaries, drawings and collages. His photographs were often physically altered, covered with ink, paint, blood ...