Author Christopher Wallace traces the footsteps of the original playboy-artist-activist Peter Beard, travelling from Kenya, to the Serengeti, Cassis and beyond
Like most people, I first came to know the legend of Peter Beard, through the image he projected in his photographs from remotest Kenya – scribbling in his journal while hip deep in a Nile crocodile, say – a safari-jacketed image like something out of silent pictures.
I had known Beard a bit for the last six or so years of his life, and would ultimately talk to dozens of his friends, lovers, collaborators, and debtors, but while we were all still very deep in lockdown in New York, I was deep in theory, trying to unpack the very potent image Beard had created.
south of France, to Cassis, where Beard’s cousin Jerome Hill had lived and built a community of contemporaries, from Picasso to Lucien Clergue to Bardot, and where Beard had spent a lot of his time, both as a young man and then in the early 2000s. I finished the book in Hill’s former home there, which is now an artist retreat, and, rather than go home and spin out on LinkedIn or whatever, went to visit friends in Venice, which was just then reopening.
In the two years or so since I finished the book, I have travelled to Hawaii and to the Galapagos, to Southeast Asia, Central Europe, Morocco, Lebanon, Iraq, and elsewhere, trying to write about the stories we tell ourselves about who we are on our travels, what cultural narratives we fit ourselves into, and where those come from.
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