This exhibition highlights two interwoven trends in contemporary photography; artist-made models photographed to appear as natural and straight photographs that give an artificial feeling to the settings they represent. For example, the models that James Casebere constructs are lit and photographed so that they look life-like but also resemble one of Piranesi’s prisons. On the other hand, street lamps weirdly illuminate the night photographs of real houses by Todd Hido, which gives an unsettling atmosphere. This mixture of straight uncanny landscapes and “real” simulated locations is the postmodern model that Staging Reality addresses.

James Casebere, 1995, Tunnels, cibachrome print, 24 x 30”

Todd Hido, 1997, Untitled #2150, c-print, 24 x 20”

Kim Keever, 1996, Yellow River, cibachrome print, 30 x 40”

Oliver Boberg, 2003, Rohbau II, c-print, 53 x 92”

Esteban Pastorino Diaz, 2003, Barrio, Magdalena, light jet on aluminum, 38 x 50”

Lois Rener, 1993, Gerust, c-print, 150 x 120cm

Christina Seely, 2007, Lux: Metropolis (Paris), c-print, 48 x 60”

Tokihiro Sato, 1991, AC#11 Koto-ku Aomi, c-print, 38 x 48”, ed. 1/12

Michael Wolf, 2007, Architecture of Density #12, c-print, 40 x 58”