A photographer with New York tabloid newspaper Daily News accused actor Alec Baldwin of attacking him on Tuesday, but the actor's representative told a different story.

Photographer Marc Santos said Baldwin, 54, approached and punched him in the face for taking photographs of him and his fiancée, Hilaria Thomas, 28, outside New York City's Marriage License Bureau, according to a story and photos on the newspaper's website that appeared to show a scuffle between the two men.

Baldwin, a star of the TV show 30 Rock and appears in movie Rock of Ages, posted a series of tweets Tuesday that disagreed with the account.

A spokesman for Baldwin said that as the actor left the building in downtown Manhattan after picking up a marriage license, someone came in between him and the photographer. The photographer became frustrated and "pushed past the bystander and assaulted Alec with his camera."

"There were no punches thrown, and any subsequent physical contact was simply Alec protecting himself," the representative, Matthew Hiltzik, said in a statement.