James Casebere and surveillance culture
Posted by Morgan Garwood on September 09, 1997 at 19:20:03: In Reply to: or, as garcia lorca put it posted by bkxyzp on September 06, 1997 at 20:06:00:
Casebere has been quietly hovering in the background for years; his work embodies a cool intersection of mysticism and paranoia that is finely attuned to the cultural pressures of our day to day lives. There's an element of the uncanny in his best imagery that holds up in a way that the coy machinations of other set-photographers hasn't been able to. Maybe it's his sensitivity to light and scale, combined with a tone of vacuity and depletion; an offhand statement that becomes an inscrutable question... now, why hasn't he received more critical attention ? A longstanding bias against photography as a secondary art to painting ? Somebody will figure this out... but all to often, I find that artists who are placed on the second-tier, the one's that never make it to the coked out auction valhalla glory zone, to, in actuality be our better selves; what they give up in pretense and blather they gain in clarity and sensitivity... go, James...
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