Wildlife photographer and artist Peter Beard has found his latest wild project inside a Manhattan hotel.
Spies say Beard has been working on a series called “Living Sculpture in Bondage” with model Ingrid Levin, who’s appeared in a sexy campaign for the Fontainebleau Miami Beach.
“Peter met her at a Julia Margaret Cameron exhibition at the Met,” explained a spy. “He introduced himself by declaring, ‘I am a living sculptor.’ ”
On Friday, Beard photographed Levin in the Sweet Suite at Hank Freid’s Sanctuary Hotel. A spy said the model was wearing a latex corset with lace trim and above-the-knee boots. Very “Fifty Shades.”
Beard was overheard saying one of his clients was stopping by to check out the shoot, but the guest and any other onlookers were ultimately barred from the late-afternoon session.
We hear Beard added his young muse Natalie White to the proceedings on Monday at a studio. “This is all for a secret new book project,” a spy explained, adding the style of the shots will be in the vein of late provocateur Helmut Newton.