Catherine Corman

"These are the right photographs for 'The Great Wrong Place," Los Angeles."
-Ed Ruscha
 
Daylight Noir: Raymond Chandler's Imagined City is a book of photographs of the dark Los Angeles that inspired Chandler’s underworld morality tales. He was drawn to the Edward Hopper-like loneliness of the city: the separate existences that never, finally merge. In these photographs, Catherine Corman has given us, as Jonathan Lethem writes in his preface, a "supremely evocative catalogue of haunted places...these streets and buildings we have erected in order to give order to our solitudes."