M+B, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Stella Bugbee, "Tastemaker: Alex Prager Loves a Redhead, Sent Lara Stone Up a Tornado," The Cut, February 7, 2012
Bryony Quinn, "Alex Prager stages a cinematic tale of death and compulsion in heavy noir style…," It's Nice That, April 20, 2012 (illustrated)
Carl Swanson, "Can't Look Away: Photographer Alex Prager's high-intensity L.A. melodrama," New York Magazine, April 2012
Matt Swain, "Pulp Fiction: Alex Prager: Compulsion at M+B, Los Angeles," Aesthetica, May 9, 2012
"LUMEN Festival Transforms 150,000 Tons Of Salt Into Surreal Playground," Huffingtonpost, June 25, 2012
Rob Wilkes, "Crowd Control: Alex Prager marshals the action in an ambitious new series...," We Heart, November 19, 2013
American • 1979
Influenced by pulp fiction and cinematic tropes, self-taught photographer and film-maker Alex Prager creates striking, sometimes unnerving images that are filled with a dynamic cast of characters. The hyperreal worlds she creates are packed with human melodrama, like the retro 'damsel in distress' character that regularly makes appearances in Prager's brightly colored and dramatically lit scenes.
With influences ranging from David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock, William Eggleston, Cindy Sherman, and Gregory Crewdson, Prager references the vivid aesthetics of mid-twentieth century American cinema and photography. Pairing photographs alongside her films as part of her practice, Prager presents an eerie, alternative world where more questions are asked than answered.
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