James Casebere

"...It is important to expose the seams, show how it is put together in a very constructivist but also Godardian way. When it comes to the subject of domesticity, I want to quote William Carlos Williams, with his famous dictum, “no ideas but in things.”
James Casebere, quoted from his conversation with Okwui Enwezor in Damiani's monograph, James Casebere: Works 1975-2010.

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James Casebere Essays by Christopher Chang, Jeffrey Eugenides, Anthony Vidler. For the last 20 years, James Casebere has constructed increasingly complex small-scale architectural models that are carefully built and then subtly lit and photographed in the studio. These table-sized models are
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James Casebere: Works 1975-2010 Edited by Okwui Enwezor. Introduction by Toni Morrison, Ford Morrison. Text by Hal Foster. James Casebere (born 1953) emerged in the Pictures Generation as an artist-photographer complicating the status of the photographic image alongside Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince. His earliest works dismantled the codes
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James Casebere and Hal Foster at Barnes & Noble

On Wednesday, October 26, ARTBOOK | D.A.P. and the New York Foundation for the Arts hosted a conversation between artist James Casebere and noted art historian Hal Foster at the 86th Street Barnes & Noble in New York.
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James Casebere at Barnes & Noble 86th Street

ARTBOOK | D.A.P, Barnes & Noble, New York Foundation for the Arts and Damiani Editore invite you to join James Casebere in conversation with Hal Foster celebrating the publication of James Casebere: Works 1975-2010, Wednesday, October 26, from 7:00 - 8:00pm.
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James Casebere

"Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY) #1" (2009) is reproduced from James Casebere: Works 1975-2010, published by Damiani.

James Casebere: Works 1975-2010

Edited by Okwui Enwezor. Introduction by Toni Morrison, Ford Morrison. Text by Hal Foster.
Published by Damiani

James Casebere (born 1953) emerged in the Pictures Generation as an artist-photographer complicating the status of the photographic image alongside Cindy Sherman and Richard Prince. His earliest works dismantled the codes of American suburbia and the myth of the west, but he quickly arrived at the practice for which he is best known today: the construction of formally simplified architectural models--arenas, monasteries, tunnels, factories--which Casebere lights and photographs in his studio. In the early 1990s, as the ramifications of Michel Foucault's critiques of architecture and power took hold in American culture, Casebere's practice developed into a study of architectural typologies of the Enlightenment era, particularly prisons. The lighting in his photographs is dramatic, or rather it plays with the rhetoric of dramatic lighting, qualified by the sheer artifice of the architectural models themselves. Edited by Okwui Enwezor, this major mid-career survey includes several of Casebere's lesser-known early works, as well as previously unreproduced sculpture and photographs from 1975 to 2010. Enwezor contributes both an introduction and a conversation with the artist. The volume also contains essays by Hal Foster and Toni Morrison. James Casebere: Works 1975-2010 is the most comprehensive monograph to date on this important American artist.

James Casebere

Essays by Christopher Chang, Jeffrey Eugenides, Anthony Vidler.
Published by Charta

For the last 20 years, James Casebere has constructed increasingly complex small-scale architectural models that are carefully built and then subtly lit and photographed in the studio. These table-sized models are made of simple materials, pared down to essential forms, empty of both extraneous detail and action. Casebere's disconcerting ''sites'' recall prisons, monasteries, tunnels, factories and other such spaces. Casebere has gained increasing international acclaim in recent years as the leading proponent of what has become known as ''constructed photography.'' This is the first publication to comprehensively survey Casebere's career in its entirety, and provides an important contextual and visual framework in which to posit his soaring international reputation. His oeuvre can be seen in the full scope of its development, from his early preoccupation with the genre of the Western and the suburban home, to his concern with institutional buildings, to his recent investigations into the relationships between social control and social structures.