Saturday, August 31, 2013

Alex Prager


Alex Prager is a Los Angeles based photographer filmmaker. Prager’s use of bold colors and specifically placed lighting really sets her apart. Many of her most striking photographs feature intense angles and sharp contrast. She uses editing to her advantage and creates many optical illusions within her photographs, such as the car being engulfed by a puddle on the middle of the freeway.  Her editing is also very tasteful and does a great job creating believable but shocking subjects and compositions.

Prager’s art has a very cinematic feel to it that I find very aesthetically pleasing. She is also a filmmaker, which I think helps her to understand the motion and fluidity that photographs can have. In addition to that, her choice of model/wardrobe is very important and gives a lot of her photos a vintage feel while also giving them a consistent theatrical element. I think she she is skilled in using imagery reminiscent of Hitchcock and it adds a lot of context to her pieces.



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