Diane Keaton loves making art, even though she’s not an artist herself
Diane Keaton, a beloved actress known for her unique style and screen presence, died on Saturday at the age of 79. Although she is primarily known for her iconic roles, such as the title character in Woody Allen’s 1977 film Annie Hall with Kay Adams-Corleone on godfather—Keaton was also a devout artist, particularly in the fields of photography and collage.
In 2022, Keaton released Saved: My Picture Worlddescribed as a “visual autobiography” composed of images selected by the actress and photos taken by Keaton herself with a Rolleiflex camera, as well as photo collages, scrapbook pages and more abstract works by her brother Randy.
To mark the book’s release, Keaton shared a video on Instagram discussing her lifelong fascination with collage, which she said she had practiced with her siblings since she was a child.
“I spent a lot of my nights because I was a single woman in New York and I wanted to be an actress or something. So I made a lot of collages. I couldn’t stop myself,” Keaton said in the 2022 video. “I’ve really been fantasizing about it.”
Still, Keaton doesn’t consider himself “an artist,” at least according to the August interview. beautiful house.
“I’m just a guy who cuts out paper and throws it on the wall, or finds old photos I saw at swap meets and throws them on the wall,” Keaton said. “I mean, I have a lot of these—many, many, many. And I have a long table. I like to play with cutting up objects and putting them in the same moment—maybe I present them as little collages. But nothing important.”
interestingly, saved This is not the first art book Keaton has published. In 1980, Knopf released Bookingis a monograph of black-and-white photos of old hotel interiors she took in the 1970s. In 2017, she published Houses built by Pinterestabout home design, in 2019 she posted California Romanticisma coffee table book devoted to Southern California architecture.
Keaton is also a tireless collector of photography books, telling us new york times In 2014, her dream was to “purchase every photography book ever published,” purchasing an old warehouse and converting it into “a giant library of image-driven books that would be open to the public.”
Imagery and artistic creation were always at the center of Keaton’s life. At that same time era During the interview, she said that French artist Sophie Calle blind placed on her nightstand, calling it “a reminder of one of life’s greatest gifts – the gift of seeing.”
