Mick Jagger, Iman pay tribute to late photographer Peter Beard

Mick Jagger and other famous friends of Peter Beard paid tribute to the legendary photographer on Monday, after his remains were found in Long Island over the weekend. The Rolling Stones rocker, 76, shared a couple of black and white images of himself goofing off with the famed African wildlife shutterbug in an Instagram post. …

Mick Jagger and other famous friends of Peter Beard paid tribute to the legendary photographer on Monday, after his remains were found in Long Island over the weekend.

The Rolling Stones rocker, 76, shared a couple of black and white images of himself goofing off with the famed African wildlife shutterbug in an Instagram post.

“Sad to hear my dear friend Peter Beard has died, he was a visionary artist and photographer, who wasn’t afraid to take risks. My thoughts are with his wife Nejma and daughter Zara,” wrote Jagger.

Beard — a onetime fixture at Studio 54 and pal of Andy Warhol — was assigned to photograph the Rolling Stones on their “Exile on Main Street” tour in 1972 and befriended Jagger, who would later turn up at his book parties, according to Town & Country magazine.

“Mick [Jagger] arrived so drunk from an afternoon with Peter Beard and [painter] Francis Bacon that he fell asleep on my bed,” Warhol noted in a 1970s diary.

In 1975, Beard discovered Somali supermodel Iman, then a student at Nairobi University.

“I met Peter in Nairobi in 1975 and as destiny would have it we were forever intertwined,” Iman, 64, wrote in a tribute to Beard on Instagram Monday.

“He did discover, photographed and molded me in a way as I have never been photographed before or knew anything about modeling and have never seen a fashion magazine.”

But, the model said her old pal could at times be “exasperating” in the way he presented her to the media.

“Mr. Beard gleefully spun an imperial fantasy: that he had come upon me herding cattle in the African bush,” she wrote. “In truth, I speak five languages, had been a political science student at the University of Nairobi and the daughter of a Somali diplomat.”

Of all his artistic endeavors, Iman wrote that Beard’s “work in environmental and animal conservation was closest to his heart.”

“Even by the dashing standards of wildlife photography, his résumé was the stuff of high drama, full of daring, danger, romance and tall tales, many of them actually true,” she wrote.

“His public persona sometimes overshadowed his work, but he was an artistic pioneer and environmentalist.”

Beard was found dead in a wooded area of Camp Hero State Park on Sunday. He suffered from dementia and had been missing from his cliffside Montauk compound since March 31.