Alex Prager - Artnet
WEBAlex Prager is an American photographer and filmmaker known for her cinematic color photography featuring a hyper-real, Old Hollywood aesthetic. View Alex Prager’s 242 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
How Photographer Alex Prager Creates Her Cinematic Images
WEBSep 28, 2018 · In the last decade, Alex Prager has become known for her photographs and films full of Hitchcock blondes, Kodachrome colors, and ’70s frocks. A native Angeleno, Prager plunders Hollywood’s visual history, as well as its industry resources, such as prop houses and special-effects technicians.
Alex Prager: The artist who straddles the real and the imagined
WEBJan 10, 2018 · Alex Prager’s work is meticulously staged. And yet, it captures the lucid moments of humanity found only in the most candid of photography.
Alex Prager’s L.A. Dreaming | The New Yorker
WEBSep 9, 2019 · In her early series, including “Polyester” and “The Big Valley,” from the mid-two-thousands, Prager established a particular California aesthetic, photographing friends wearing polyester...
Interview: Alex Prager’s Nod to the Golden Era of Film
WEBMay 23, 2014 · The concept, after all, is not a thing, but just an idea about a thing. And as a visual artist, the only thing that really counts for me is an image that I can show people. See more of Alex’s work here. © Alex Prager. LET'S GO. Alex Prager's images look like stills pulled right from a 1950's Hollywood film.
Out With The Old And In With The Old-Inspired: Fresh Photos At MoMA - NPR
WEBAug 26, 2010 · There is a story to the film — a rather dark one — but more than anything, Prager's film and photography are about aesthetics. Her imagination inhabits a colorful world of wigs and floral...
Alex Prager Studio
WEBSelected Work 2007-2010. Public Art + Performance. Hyundai Card Music Library, 2020. Farewell, Work Holiday Parties, 2020. Westfield: Face in the Crowd (2014), 2018. Midnight Moment: Applause, 2017. The Billboard Creative (2016 & 2017) Live Performance: La Grande Sortie, 2016. Dallas Symphony Orchestra: La Petite Mort (2012), 2015.
The Threat of Being Seen - Aperture
WEBJul 12, 2018 · Prager is known for photographing psychological, hypervivid, theatrically constructed scenes that evoke stills from classic Hollywood films, as evident in her new monograph Silver Lake Drive (2018). Cinematic and filmic are adjectives frequently applied to Prager’s photographs, but for Prager that means more than a purely aesthetic quality.
The surreal, dreamlike world of Alex Prager | CNN - CNN …
WEBJan 10, 2018 · Prager has a fascination with the dark undercurrents that can run beneath the veneer of beauty.
Get to know: Alex Prager - Darklight Digital
WEBPrager’s photography is heavily influenced by classic Hollywood cinema [blame it on her Los Angeles roots]. Her photographs often feature carefully staged and theatrically lit scenes that resemble movie stills, the perfect blend of artifice with real human emotion.
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