Background
Michael James Beard was born on September 27,1947 in Long Beach, California, United States.
Photographer publisher teacher
Michael James Beard was born on September 27,1947 in Long Beach, California, United States.
Michael Beard earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 1972 and a Master of Fine Arts in 1974.
An art instructor at Stanford University, Palo Alto (since 1978), Beard is also editor/publisher of the fine art photography quarterly Latent Image. He taught art at Foothill College in Los Altos, California, from 1974 to 1978 and was assistant professor of photography at San Jose State University, California, 1972-1974.