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The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984
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James Casebere (American, b. 1953)
Subdivision with Spotlight, 1982
Gelatin silver print; 16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm)
Collection of the artist
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Casebere's dramatically lit photographs of tabletop sculptures (made from plaster, Styrofoam, and cardboard) show uncannily familiar yet eerily inhuman spaces—from courtrooms and libraries to an empty storefront or a suburban street at night—that belong to everyone and no one, a ghost world of collective memory. Using the camera to question photography's cherished myths of documentary veracity and transparent objectivity, Casebere virtually invented the tradition of setup photography as it is practiced today by artists such as Thomas Demand and Vik Muniz.
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