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Credit, Faith, Trust, an exhibition of new and recent works from James Casebere at Lisson Gallery

LONDON.- Lisson Gallery presents Credit, Faith, Trust, an exhibition of new and recent works from James Casebere’s Landscape with Houses series. Working at the forefront of constructed photography since the late seventies, Casebere is associated with The Pictures Generation, a group of artists who combined a Pop obsession with media culture with the critical framework of Conceptual Art to redefine photography as a Postmodern medium in the 70s and 80s. Based upon his understanding of architectural, anthropological, art historical and cinematic sources, Casebere’s detailed photographs address contemporary and historical social concerns. His work challenges the boundaries between reality and imagination, whether dealing with alienation in sixties America; addressing slavery and colonialism through black and white visions of cotton mills and covered wagons peppered with native American arrows; or questioning inca