Colonial noir : photographs from Mexico / Reid Samuel Yalom.

Main entry:

Yalom, Reid Samuel.

Title & Author:

Colonial noir : photographs from Mexico / Reid Samuel Yalom.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford General Books, 2004.

Description:

xxix, 85 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Foreword / Mark Citret -- Introduction / Santhosh Daniel -- A chiaroscuro of Mexican life / Frederick Luis Aldama -- Plates.

Summary:

"The black-and-white photographs in this volume recast our sense of Mexico's colonial architecture by bringing together the unsettling tenor of Mexico's colonial legacies with the ambiguous landscape of film noir imagery. Set against the backdrop of Baroque and Neoclassical architecture, Colonial Noir's images draw on the aesthetics of Surrealism and Modernism to create the existential tone with which the collection confronts the problematic relationship between Mexico's celebrated cultural plurality and its colonial history."
"Composed over a period of six years, this body of work bears the subtle influence of Mexican works by Edward Weston, Paul Strand, and Manuel Bravo, as well as the nighttime photographs of Brassai. Santhosh Daniel's introduction places Yalom's work in the context of the history of photographic work on Mexico." "A second major aspect of this work is Yalom's desire to use the lens of Latin American literature - particularly magical realism - to delve into Mexican culture and history. The images in Colonial Noir present a picture of Mexico that highlights a historical side of Mexico of which most foreigners are not aware."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0804745366 (alk. paper)
9780804745369 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Yalom, Reid Samuel.
Photography, Artistic.
Photography Mexico.
Photographie artistique.
Photographie Mexique Histoire 20e siècle.
Photographie Mexique.
art photography.
Photography.
Mexico.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236936
Call No.: BIB 166783
Status: Available

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