“I don’t think I am an abstract artist because I’m not that much of an artist. I’m 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. I mean, I have tons of that—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, maybe I present them as little collages.”
– Diane Keaton
Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton (January 5, 1946 – October 11, 2025) kept a cabinet of saved and found photographic curiosities. Her images were published in the scrapbook / visual autobiography Saved: My Picture World.
The book begins with a tribute to B-Movie horror flicks, such as Attack of the Puppet People, before she shares highlights from her collection of found photographs, pictures she took on her Rolleiflex camera, photo-collages, scrapbook pages, and abstract collages by her brother Randy Hall, to whom the book is dedicated.
1961 British-American monster movie Gorgo.
“I remember taking shots of a particularly dapper older gentleman who spotted my flash and threw a bag of french fries at my head”
– Diane Keaton
“Our love for the picture world was much more appealing than the beach, TV, movies and even our family trips to Death Valley or Doheny Beach.”
– Diane Keaton
Via: PrintMag, HouseBeautiful,
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