a bride in veil drinking champagne — ©Edward Keating

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“With “VOWS”, Edward Keating changed the genre of wedding photography”

— David Griffin, former director of photography at National Geographic Magazine

wedding guest taking photo of a bride — ©Edward Keating

“Edward Keating worked as a photographer in New York City since 1981. Like previous generations of street photographers, he taught himself to 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.

- Ilonartgallery

pastor in the mirror at a wedding — ©Edward Keating

elderly man in a bus transporting wedding guests — ©Edward Keating

I have to ask you about VOW’S. Can you tell me a little bit about founding the section in the Times?

Eddie: I wanted to make VOW’S very different than what people typically booked. Wedding photography up until that point had looked like the photos of your parents, or your parents parents. But after a year of working the column more interested in a more personal photos. (VOW’s) transformed the business of wedding photography. People started wanting what they saw in the column, a more earthy, journalistic take on their wedding day. It took around 5 years. So photojournalist started getting into taking wedding photos and then it just snowballed. Fashion photographers, lifestyle photographers…and so the column basically opened the doors to millions of photographers that would never have thought of photographing a wedding.

-Belle Bakst, Little Fashion Stylist

bride covered with veil with light shining on it — ©Edward Keating

Vows: Weddings Of The Nineties From The New York Times Hardcover – February 6, 1997

Over the last five years, "Vows," on the Sunday New York Times' wedding pages, has become one of the paper's most popular columns. Each week a new couple is profiled in the engaging, humorous, and heartwarming style of Lois Smith Brady, accompanied by the distinctive photography of award-winner Edward Keating. Brady's favorite columns are gathered here in this beautifully illustrated, magnificently designed celebration of love and marriage.

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