{"id":303549,"date":"2025-10-14T20:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303549\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:40:11","slug":"diane-keaton-had-an-eye-for-photography-and-released-several-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/303549\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Keaton Had an Eye for Photography and Released Several Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>Diane Keaton holding a Nikon, left, her photo book Reservations, right. <\/p>\n

Actress Diane Keaton passed away<\/a> over the weekend, and although she was best known for appearing in The Godfather and Woody Allen movies, she also had a keen eye for photography. <\/p>\n

In fact, Keaton released at least four photography-related books, two of which she photographed herself. Keaton\u2019s favorite camera was a Rolleiflex and during her travels in the 1970s she used one to create Reservations (1980), which saw Keaton explore unloved American hotels. <\/p>\n

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Keaton used direct flash for the square black and white photos; the book also signaled her interest in home design and architecture. She released The House that Pinterest Built (2017), a style guide for the home, and California Romantica (2019), a book looking at Southern California architecture. <\/p>\n

But if you asked her, Keaton would not describe herself as a photographer. \u201cI shoot the pictures, but I\u2019m not doing them in any big way. I just like it. I like images,\u201d she told House Beautiful.<\/a> \u201cIf I see a tree that looks unusual, I\u2019ll just take a picture of it. I take a lot of pictures that go nowhere. But I enjoy it. And maybe someday I\u2019ll do something with them.\u201d <\/p>\n

Keaton was just as much of a photography enthusiast and collector; she once told The New York Times that it was her dream to \u201cpurchase every photography book ever published,\u201d buy an old warehouse, and transform it \u201cinto a massive library of image-driven books and open it to the public,\u201d per Art News.<\/a> <\/p>\n

She released Saved: My Picture World (2022), which explored her lifelong fascination with collages. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just a person who cuts out paper, throws it up on the wall, or finds old photographs that I see at the swap meet and throw them up on the wall,\u201d Keaton told House Beautiful.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI mean, I have tons of that \u2014 tons, tons, tons. And I have a very long table. And I like to play around with cutting objects and putting them in the same moment \u2014 maybe I present them as little collages. But nothing important.\u201d<\/p>\n