Alex
Prager is a self taught photographer, she uses cues from pulp fiction, the
cinematic conventiond of movie directors, and fashion photography. Majority of
her work resembles movie stills, he work is crisp, bodly colored, shot from
intresting angles, and dramatically lit. Her work is really 70s based with
retro styled women who are disguised in wigs and dramatic makeup.
Alex Prager depicts the fissures of
deception through retro Americana scenarios that somehow look
timeless. Pragers work is very theatrical which creates a dark comical
feel. In her work the artifice of color creates a ‘separation of reality,’
conjuring both a mood and an era characterized by unrest that lies just below
seemingly perfect surfaces. Its Pragers belief that ‘deep down all women
are actresses'. Which explains the reasoning behind Prager keeping the
same subject matter throughout her work, being women in the 70s.
http://www.alexprager.com/#!/photography/Week-end
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