Is there a word for this aesthetic from the late 80s and early 90s?
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That film look is heavily employed in a film genre called neo-noir. The movie Seven is in fact one exemplar of it. Film of course is a story-telling medium, but it is also a visual medium. One of the common visual aspects of noir is heavy use of darkness and shadow. In the modern color era people don't like black-and-white films, so in neo-noir you'll see a lot of red and yellow hues rather than white.
That album cover is instead just a picture taken during Golden Hour, which is a time just before sunset (or sometimes just after sunrise, but no artist wants to be up then) when the lighting outdoors is much redder than it normally is. Photographers just love golden hour shots. I'm not enough of a photography nerd to know why*, but they do. Drive by your local city park with the most flowers a month or so before school graduation about an hour before dusk and you'll find it full of newly graduating schoolkids and their photographers, taking shots. Can't swing a cat in there without hitting one or two of them (and probably getting reported to the SPCA).
* - Perhaps our friends over at Photography.StackExchange can help.
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