A GALLERY FOR FINE PHOTOGRAPHY
322 Royal Street
New Orleans, LA  70117
Telephone 504-568-1313
Fax 504-568-1322
www.agallery.com

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December 28, 1999 

A Gallery for Fine Photography
Celebrating 25 Years:1975-2000 

Peter Beard
Fifty Years of Portraits
Artist Reception
Saturday, January 29, 2000
6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Exhibition continues until May 15, 2000 

Visionary artist and photographer, world traveler and explorer, champion of animal rights andbrilliant society character, Peter Beard is impossible to fit into an easy category. He isperhaps best known for his fashion photography and for his brutally and beautifully honest "daybooks",in which his life experiences are recorded and interpreted through photographs embellished withdrawings, stories, newspaper clippings, and even animal blood. Peter Beard's photographsbecome objects which transport the viewer through time, objects with a presence both instantaneous andeverlasting.

Since 1961, when he graduated from Yale and settled in Kenya on land adjoining the farm of KarenBlixen (Isak Dinesen, author of Out of Africa), Peter Beard's life and career has beeninexorably tied to the African continent and its wildlife. While elephants, leopards, and crocodilesare still important elements in Beard's diaries and collages, they are by no means the only ones:Fifty Years of Portraits features work in which family members, celebrities (from Andy Warhol toJacqueline Onassis), fashion models and fellow artists figure prominently in Beard's unique visualvocabulary.

Join us on Saturday, January 29, 2000 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. to welcome Peter Beard in person to A Gallery for Fine Photography.

Please call (504) 568-1313 for interview and press conference information.

Books available:

Peter Beard: Fifty Years of Portraits, hardcover, $200.

The End of the Game, hardcover, $40.

Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa, hardcover, $40.

(Please visit our bookstore for information on ordering these titles.)

Please call (504) 568-1313 or visit www.agallery.com for more information.