Edward Keating: A Fearless Legacy

Retrospective exhibition of the late Pulitzer prize-winning photographer originally from New Canaan

October 12 – November 13, 2024

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Editioned estate prints as well as rare and unique vintage silver gelatins printed by Keating are available for sale.

The Carriage Barn Arts Center presents the first retrospective exhibition highlighting the late Pulitzer-prize winning photographer’s 40-year career, as well as his connection to New Canaan, CT.  

Curated with the photographer’s family, the exhibition features 80 photographs and additional archival materials that offer insight into Keating’s career and life as a photographer. Editioned estate prints as well as rare and unique vintage silver gelatins printed by Keating are available for sale.  

Born in 1956 and raised in New Canaan, CT, Edward Keating lived and worked as a photographer in New York City since 1981. Like previous generations of street photographers, he taught himself how to photograph by chronicling street life of everyday New Yorkers. Ten years later he was hired as a Staff Photographer at The New York Times where he covered national and international news and was a regular contributor to the Sunday New York Times Magazine. In addition, he co-founded “Vows,” The New York Times wedding column. In 2002, Keating won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage on the attacks of 9/11. He additionally shared the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting with New York Times staff for the series, “How Race is Lived in America,” 

He was also a regular contributor to Time Magazine, Rolling Stone, “W” Magazine and New York Magazine. His 20 year project on Route 66 was published by Damiani in 2018, Mean Street, The Lost Dream of Route 66. 

Keating’s work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City and The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. A graduate of New Canaan High School class of 1974, Keating served for many years as an active board member of  the school’s Fritz Eager Foundation for Art Education. 

Keating passed away in Sept 2021, as a result of his many months long exposure to toxic material while covering 9/11 at Ground Zero for the NY TIMES.  He leaves behind his wife Carrie Boretz also a photographer and two daughters. Caitlin, a journalist and documentary filmmaker and Emily, a singer/songwriter.

“Eddie was a passionate and smart photographer who endlessly studied its history and those he admired. One was the legendary Robert Frank who he considered a good friend.  He left behind numerous notebooks writing about the art of shooting on the street and was always searching for ways to improve on his natural talent.

When face to face with his subjects, he clicked the shutter, ruled by his heart, not his head. At the start of his career, fearful of shooting the images he so wanted to capture on the streets, he was fearless in the end and became one of the best street photographers around.” 

  – Carrie Boretz Keating