Leonora Vicuña: Carrusel de Melancolias

By Leonora Vicuna

Vicu a applies her poetic sensibilities to her hand-tinted photographs of Santiago street life under the Chilean dictatorship

Published with Toluca and Fundacion Lariviere.

Roaming the streets of 1970s Santiago with a Russian camera in hand, poet-turned-photographer Leonora Vicu a (born 1952) captured its denizens in bars, cinemas and dance halls, hand-coloring and manipulating them to create a dreamlike, imaginary world removed from an austere reality.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8410290073
• ISBN13: 9788410290075
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Rm
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 11.5"