Saved: My Picture World-Quality Guarantee

Description

Diane Keaton’s cabinet of saved and found photographic curiosities is a visual autobiography of sorts and scrapbook of her fascinations and reflections.

A visual autobiography of a kind as only Diane Keaton couldtellit,viathecelebratedstar’sidiosyncratic andpersonalcollectionsandruminativetexts, Savedoffers an unprecedented glimpse into the mind of the legendary film star. The book begins with an homage tomovies—curiously,toold“b”gradehorrorflicks, suchas AttackofthePuppetPeople—apassionthat manifestsinacollectionofrarefilmstillsshowing large-brainalienswithcrablikehandsandterrified secondchapterorcollection,thereaderencoun-ters“Cracked,”astartlingselectionofcrinkledand neglectednegatives:foundportraitsthatspeakof intimatelyrevealingarephotographstakenbythe starherself,betheyofpigeonswhileondowntime from the set of Reds in London or of the “greeters” of Hollywood Boulevard, caught at the other end of her Rolleiflexcameralens,nowrevealedastheseen,the experienced, the remembered, the cherished. But this isonlythebeginning,thesurfaceofaverydeepdive into the wellsprings of one of the great creative talents at work today. The book is an invitation to dive in.