James Casebere’s Visions from After the Flood

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James Casebere photographs places that don’t exist. Or, rather, in lieu of photographing real places, he photographs ideas about them—their political inclinations, their psychic textures, their dream logics. Take, for instance, his work “Stairs,” which is on view in his solo show “Seeds of Time,” at Sean Kelly Gallery, in New York. A riot of interlocking pastel-colored façades, smooth and featureless as a CAD model, float atop...