The End of the Game
[Köln]: Taschen, 2015. Black and white photographs by Peter Beard. Limited edition. Three-quarter maroon cloth over grey cloth, stamped in gilt, photographic endpapers, housed in publisher's slipcase. 292pp (unnumbered). 12" x 10.5" Fine in fine publisher's slipcase with slightly creased upper board. Item #242090
FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF LANDMARK CONSERVATIONIST PHOTOGRAPHY
Peter Beard's seminal work traverses twenty years of elephant photography, cataloguing the overpopulation and starvation of the 60s and 70s in his scrapbook style. Remembered here in Taschen's fiftieth anniversary edition, Beard's environmental conservationist work (although he despised that term) brought the devastation of east Africa's largest mammals into the public eye. With a new introduction by Paul Theroux and Taschen's stark reproductions, Beard's condemnation of human intervention still resounds today.
Limited to 5000 numbered copies, of which this is 3931.
Price: $300.00