Tierney Gearon: Actress Diane Keaton, from "Another Woman" published October 23, 2005

This limited-edition photograph by American artist Tierney Gearon was featured in The New York Times Magazine Photographs (Aperture, 2011), edited by Kathy Ryan. It originally appeared in the story “Another Woman”, published in The New York Times Magazine on October 23, 2005.

As Gearon recalls about the experience: “A lot of actors don’t like having their photos taken. When Diane Keaton arrived at my house for this shoot, she wore a hat. As soon as we began, she took the hat off and hid behind it. I think she was surprised that I said: ‘Okay, then, if you want to hide your face, let’s just do it instead of this peek-a-boo thing.’ I asked her to lie on the ground in this alley and put her hat over her face.”

Although the location, make-up, lights, and assistants have all been pre-arranged, there is a fleeting moment of strangeness that Gearon has managed to capture, making the figure of Keaton simply another element in an interesting picture. Like most of Gearon’s other non-editorial works, there is a strong sense of narrative in this image, but the viewer is uncertain what that narrative exactly is.

Each limited-edition print is hand-packed with great care and ships from New York within 3–5 days.