1992
Signed and numbered in pencil
15 x 11 inches (each print)
Handmade portfolio of 47 Polaroid transfer prints with accompanying text by Mark Beard (Edition of 10 + 5 APs)
$12,000
Unbound bifolia gathered in 12 fascicles. 30 handcolored photos by Beard transfer-printed on Arches paper by Beard and Craig Fry, with additional handcoloring, facsimiles of Beard’s autograph text. Publisher’s grey buckram clamshell case with title stamped in silver on upper cover.
The subjects of Beard’s portraits and anecdotes include Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Tennessee Williams, Henry Geldzahler, Quentin Crisp, Robin Byrd, Black-Eyed Susan, Mario Amaya, Virgil Thompson, and others.
Work by Mark Beard