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The artist: Born in New York City, Peter Beard (born 1938) began keeping diaries and taking photographs as an adolescent. By the time he graduated from Yale, he had developed a keen interest in Africa; in the early 1960s he worked at Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, during which time he photographed and documented the demise of over 35,000 elephants and published his first book, The End of the Game. His first show came in 1975 at the Blum Helman Gallery, and was followed in 1977 by the landmark installation of elephant carcasses, burned diaries, taxidermy, African artifacts, books and personal memorabilia at New York’s International Center for Photography. In addition to creating original artwork, Beard has also worked as a fashion photographer and collaborated on projects with Andy Warhol, Andrew Wyeth, Richard Lindner, Terry Southern, Truman Capote, and Francis Bacon. In 1996, shortly after Beard was trampled by an elephant, his first major retrospective opened at the Centre National de la Photographie in Paris, France, followed by others in Berlin, London, Toronto, Madrid, Milan, Tokyo, and Vienna. He lives in New York City, Long Island, and Kenya with his wife, Nejma, and daughter, Zara.
Comes in a clamshell boxComes with a specially fabricated wood book stand
• XXL-Format: 34.5 x 50 cm (13.4 x 19.7 in.)
• Main book: 200 pages of diaries and 294 pages of collages + 5 fold-outs

Limited edition of 2,500 copies worldwide, numbered and signed by 

  David LaChapelle.

 All color illustrations are color-separated and reproduced in Pan4C, the finest reproduction technique available today, which provides unequalled intensity and color range.

The Fellini of photography

The inimitable David LaChapelle, the photographer whose playful, over-the-top style is perfectly unmistakable and unmistakably perfect. Just about everybody who is anybody has posed in one of his dreamlike setups, including Pamela Anderson (in her birthday suit, “censored” by star-shaped stickers), Madonna, Marilyn Manson (as a school bus crossing guard), David Beckham, Tupac Shakur (in a bubblebath), Elizabeth Taylor, Jennifer Lopez, Eminem, Uma Thurman, Leonardo DiCaprio (as Marlon Brando in The Wild One), Britney Spears (as a scantily-clad hot dog vendor), Christina Aguilera (on a pink horse), Hugh Hefner, David Bowie, Courtney Love, Paris Hilton… the list is ridiculously long. LaChapelle’s work has graced the pages of innumerable international magazines and has been the subject of exhibitions in New York, California, Germany, Italy, Austria, London, and more. He has also lent his talents to directing music videos and most recently, a feature documentary, Rize, which was screened at Sundance 2005.

To render homage LaChapelle’s truly extraordinary photography, this 692-page, XL-sized book is packed cover to cover with full-page images traversing his entire career to date. Bursting at the seams with color, celebrities, sex, camp, and outrageousness, this limited edition pays tribute to the daring and ambitious photographer who has created the most eye-popping mises-en-scene in the history of portraiture.

The artist:
Barely out of high school, David LaChapelle was offered his first professional job by Andy Warhol to shoot for Interview magazine. LaChapelle has photographed the world’s hottest celebrities for magazines ranging from Vanity Fair to Rolling Stone, Italian Vogue and i-D. His portraits and art photographs have been exhibited at the Staley-Wise, Toni Shafrazi, and Deitch Galleries in New York, the Fahey-Klein Gallery in California as well as internationally at Art Trend in Austria, Camerawork in Germany, Sozzani and Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Itay, and the Barbican Museum in London. LaChapelle has also directed music videos for artists such as Moby, Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, and The Vines. American Photo recently ranked him as one of the top ten "Most Important People in Photography."