Peter Beard, 82, Built a Lifetime of Art, Photography and Adventures

Confirmation of Peter Beard’s death Sunday night served as the last word of an adventuresome and rollicking life. The peripatetic photographer, naturalist, author, environmentalist and sometimes society man had been reported missing from his Montauk, N.Y., home on March 31. The 82-year-old had suffered from dementia. A spokeswoman for his family issued a statement confirming his death and acknowledging his robust life. Earlier Sunday, detectives in the East Hampton Police Department released information that clothing and human remains of an elderly man had been recovered from a search of Camp Hero Park in Montauk. That was initiated after a hunter notified local law enforcement authorities that he had found clothing in a densely wooded area near the Old Montauk Highway that matched a description of what Beard was wearing when he went missing. Beard is survived by his wife Nejma Khanum Beard and daughter Zara Beard, as well his brother Anson. Plans for a tribute could not be immediately known Sunday night. Beard devoted much of his career to chronicling Africa with his photographs, journals and books. At the midway point in his life, Beard told WWD that he still considered himself an amateur. That was despite the fact that one critic acknowledged how Beard

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