{"id":212961,"date":"2025-10-14T18:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/212961\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T18:41:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T18:41:08","slug":"diane-keaton-had-an-eye-for-photography-and-released-several-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/212961\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Keaton Had an Eye for Photography and Released Several Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/petapixel.com\/2025\/10\/14\/diane-keaton-had-an-eye-for-photography-and-released-several-books\/diane-keaton-photography\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-820313 nofollow noopener\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Diane-Keaton-Photography-800x420.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of a woman holding a camera is on the left; on the right, a book cover reads \u201cReservations Photographs by Diane Keaton\u201d with an image of a chair, table, and plant against a pink background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-large wp-image-820313\"  \/><\/a>Diane Keaton holding a Nikon, left, her photo book Reservations, right. <\/p>\n<p>Actress Diane Keaton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/10\/11\/movies\/diane-keaton-dead.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener nofollow\">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<p>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<p>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<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.housebeautiful.com\/design-inspiration\/celebrity-homes\/a65604435\/feel-free-diane-keaton-collage-artist\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener nofollow\">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<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/diane-keaton-artist-dead-79-1234756816\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"follow external noopener nofollow\">per Art News.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>She released Saved: My Picture World (2022), which explored her lifelong fascination with collages. <\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diane Keaton holding a Nikon, left, her photo book Reservations, right. 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