Wildlife Photographer Peter Beard Found Dead Near His Home

Wildlife Photographer Peter Beard Found Dead Near His Home
Photographer Peter Beard at The Gordon Parks Foundation Awards Dinner and Auction in New York on June 3, 2014. Scott Roth/Invision/AP, File
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NEW YORK—Artist, adventurer, and celebrated wildlife photographer Peter Beard was found dead in woods near his cliff-side home at the tip of Long Island nearly a month after his family reported him missing. He was 82.

“He died where he lived: in nature,” his family said in a statement posted on Beard’s website Sunday night.