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3 unusual facts about James Casebere


James Casebere

The first works were inspired by the 10th century Andalusia because of the co-operation between Islamic, Jewish, and Christian cultures preceding the Inquisition.

(La Alberca, Abadia, Spanish Bath, Mahgreb.) Later images depicted Tripoli, Lebanon, Nineveh and Samarra in Iraq, and Luxor, Egypt.

Several photographs of elaborate mosques were inspired by the 16th-century Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan.



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