Colonial Noir: Photographs from Mexico

by Reid Yalom

Using the expansive vernacular of black and white night photography to modify the antiquarian sensibility ordinarily brought to the study of Mexico's colonial architectures, Colonial Noir brings together the unsettling tenor of Mexico's colonial legacies with the ambiguous landscape of noir. Set against the backdrop of Baroque and Neoclassical architecture, the images in this collection draw on the aesthetics of Surrealism and Abstract...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804745366
• ISBN13: 9780804745369
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Stanford General Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.3" x 10.3"