James Casebere

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About James Casebere

Casebere's pioneering work has established him at the forefront of artists working with constructed photography. His work was associated with the Pictures Generation of postmodern artists who emerged in the 1980s, which included Barbara Kruger, Robert Longo, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and others.

Casebere's pioneering work has established him at the forefront of artists working with constructed photography. His work was associated with the Pictures Generation of postmodern artists who emerged in the 1980s, which included Barbara Kruger, Robert Longo, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons and others. For the last thirty years Casebere has consistently devised increasingly complex models and photographed them in his studio. Based solidly on an understanding of architecture as well as art historical and cinematic sources, Casebere's abandoned spaces are hauntingly evocative. His table-sized constructions are made of simple materials, pared down to essential forms. With his photographs of prisons in particular, he critically addressed contemporary attitudes and approaches to incarceration, as well as metaphorically pointing to relationships of social control, and social structure in the broader society. Most recently, Casebere turned his attention toward Spain and the Eastern Mediterranean. Several works examine 10th century Andalusia and the flowering of culture and co-operation between Islamic, Jewish and Christian cultures before the Inquisition.

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Works in Museum Collections

Barrel Vaulted Room

1994

Harvard Art Museums

Home

1993

Harvard Art Museums

Prison (Sing Sing)

1993

Harvard Art Museums

Prison Cell with Skylight

1993

Harvard Art Museums

Rendez-vous de Bellevue

1991

Harvard Art Museums

Collection data via The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard Art Museums (CC BY), and Europeana

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