MOSCOW, 20 APR – RIA Novosti. Photographer and artist Peter beard, who received worldwide fame as the author of the wildlife found dead in the woods in the United States, reports the New York Times.
Byrd went missing on March 31. It is reported that 81-year-old man suffered from a disorder of cognitive functions. His body was discovered by a hunter on Sunday in a forest near the village of Montauk (new York).
In the 1960-ies Byrd worked in Tsavo National Park in Kenya. He, in particular, photographed and documented the death of about 35 thousand elephants, which served as material for his first book “End game”.
Received the popularity to Byrd was a collage, combining photographs of African animals with newspaper clippings, dried leaves and insects, recordings of telephone conversations, notes on fields and portraits of women.
the Photographer was friends with many famous contemporaries – Andy Warhol, Francis bacon, Truman Capote, Karen Blixen and Salvador Dali.
