-------------- [excerpt from Jackie as Editor, by Greg Lawrence] ----------------- Another photographer friend who was involved with Jackie and the International Center of Photography was Peter Beard, famous not only for his photographs of endangered African wildlife but also for portraits of supermodels and rock stars such as Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Iman, and Veruschka.
On the rise at the age of thirty-seven, Beard was charismatic and iconoclastic.... His retinue included Jackie's sister, Lee Radziwill (with whom he had a romantic affair), Andy Warhol, Truman Capote, Andrew Wyeth, Terry Southern, and Francis Bacon. Jackie wrote an afterword for Beard's lavishly illustrated work Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa, which was published in November 1975.
This wondrously evocative tome was inspired by the African adventures of the Danish aristocrat Baroness Karen von Blixen (better known as Isak Dinesen, her nom de plume) and her classic memoir, Out of Africa. That book chronicled many of Blixen's personal experiences in Kenya, where she owned and maintained a coffee plantation from 1914 to 1931.
Beard recalled, "Jackie loved Longing for Darkness"...and her participation allowed for the book to be published. "She was very irritated. Holt, Rinehart and Winston turned it down, and I think Doubleday . . . and she had some quite amusing suggestions of what we might do to break through corporate resistance....Basically, she wrote the afterword, and it was only on that ground that the book was accepted."
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On You Tube, type in
Me and Bobby McGee, Janis Joplin
and play.
Busted flat in Baton Rouge,
Waitin' for a train
And I's feelin' near as faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down,
Just before it rained
It rode us all the way to New Orleans...
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