Alex Prager (Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA) - A native of Los Angeles, Prager's photography career began in her teens. At 22, she took work shooting fashion editorials for high profile magazines such as Flaunt and V while simultaneously forging a path on the Los Angeles independent gallery circuit. Prager's unique flair for capturing the subtlety in her subjects began to earn her worldwide recognition. In keeping with her continued and growing importance on the downtown art scene, her pieces are alluring, odd, riveting and compelling. It is Prager's ability to juxtapose the horrific and grotesque next to an almost childlike glamour, that marks her relevance in the modern art world.
Actualité Prix BMW - Paris Photo ANNONCE DES 20 FINALISTES 2009 Vente Enchères : « Photographies » par Artcurial Vente Artnet Auctions : Top Pics photography Festival Scotiabank Contact Festival 2011 - Figure and Ground Festival AIPAD 2011 - New York Exposition Alex Prager, fille cachée de Hitchcock et Lynch ? Exposition Exposition : « Alex Prager » Exposition Exposition : Alex Prager Exposition OPEN RHAPSODY : a Journey into Photography and Video Collections Exposition Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd Exposition THE AIPAD PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW NEW YORK Exposition Alumni Rijksakademie, Alex Prager and Joss McKinley at the Foam Gallery Exposition Alex Prager expose sa "Compulsion" à la Michael Hoppen Gallery Exposition The Americana à la Galerie M+B chez Colette : LeRoy Grannis, Hugh Holland, Joseph Szabo... Exposition New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho Exposition Alex Prager à la galerie Michael Hoppen Exposition Week-End - Alex Prager Exposition COLOUR à la Michael Hoppen Gallery Exposition Alex Prager The Big Valley Modifier l'image
Le jury du Prix BMW – Paris Photo 2009 a sélectionné 20 artistes finalistes pour sa sixième édition. Le thème de ce prix, réservé aux artistes présentés par les galeries participantes à Paris Photo, est :
« Quand avez-vous vécu pour la dernière fois une expérience unique ? ». Ce thème met en mots la philosophie de la nouvelle BMW Série 5 Gran Turismo : une nouvelle expérience humaine, une nouvelle vision du monde.
Les 20 finalistes sélectionnés parmi 55 candidatures retenues seront exposés à Paris Photo du 19 au 22 novembre. L’artiste lauréat recevra le Prix doté de 12 000 euros en ouverture du Salon le 18 novembre prochain.
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Pour sa vente Photographie d'automne, Artcurial propose une collection américaine d'une cinquantaine de photos, qui couvre plusieurs décennies. Parmi les photographes représentés : Berenice Abbott, Diane Arbus, Brassaï, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, Alfred Eisenstaadt, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, André Kertész ou Sebastiao Salgado...
Ed Ruscha: Swimming Pool, 1968
Color print, printed 1974 © Ed Ruscha
A cela s'ajoute une sélection de plus de 70 œuvres qui illustre une large palette de procédés photographiques et qui aborde des thèmes comme l'architecture, la nature, le corps humain et la relation entre l'homme et son environnement. Des épreuves rares d'époque p...
Artnet Auctions is pleased to announce that our Top Pics photography auction is now live for bidding. From classic photographs to works by blue-chip artists, this exciting photography sale highlights works that have performed exceptionally well at auction worldwide. This auction features important works by notable photographers such as Massimo Vitali, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alex Prager, Terry O’Neill, David LaChapelle, Nan Goldin, Peter Beard, Marilyn Minter, and Nobuyoshi Araki, among others.
Browse the entire sale here.
© Slim Aarons, Poolside Gossip, 1970
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Tout au long du mois de Mai à Toronto au Canada, le Festival Scotiabank CONTACT présente dans 200 lieux de la ville des expositions, installations publiques, projections, films, conférences et stages à environ un million de visiteurs. Nous vous présentons ci-dessous le contenu de ce festival, qui présente le meilleur de la photographie contemporaine et dont l'édition 2011 est intitulée Figure & Ground, explorant «les tensions mouvantes entre l'humanité et la nature». Pour en savoir plus : http://scotiabankcontactphoto.com/
«Focusing on our relationship to the environment, CONTACT 2011: Figure & Ground looks at how photographic images alter perception, inform knowledge, and uncover meaning. From classical portraits of t...
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The AIPAD Photography Show New York, will be presented by the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) from March 17 through 20, 2011. More than 75 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern, and 19th century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The 31st edition of The AIPAD Photography Show New York will open with a Gala Preview on March 16 to benefit the John Szarkowski Fund, an endowment for photography acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. The AIPAD Photography Show New York is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography.&...
Du 20 octobre au 23 janvier, la Galerie des Galeries ouvre ses portes pour présenter les nouvelles photographies d'Alex Prager, ainsi que son court métrage La grande sortie. Friands de ses couleurs criardes et de l'ambiance énigmatique qui règne dans son univers, nous nous sommes rendus au premier étage des galeries Lafayette, curieux d'apercevoir son nouveau travail.
Née en 1979 à Los Angeles, Alex Prager a décidé de commencer la photographie en voyant des œuvres de William Eggleston, grand maître de la couleur dans les années 70. Après avoir exposé au Foam en 2012, à la Corcoran Gallery of Art de Washington, en 2013, et à la National Gallery of Victoria à Melbourne en 2014, l'artiste a...
Du 20 octobre 2015 au 23 janvier 2016, la Galerie des Galeries invite l’artiste américaine Alex Prager pour sa première exposition personnelle en France. À cette occasion, la photographe et réa- lisatrice présente ses œuvres récentes, dont notamment son dernier film.
Alex Prager s’est fait connaître par ses mises en scène très précises au sein desquelles elle cite l’ima- gerie de l’âge d’or du film dramatique hollywoodien pour mieux révéler l’étrangeté de la vie individuelle et sociale contemporaine. La ville de Los Angeles, où elle est née, est pour elle une source inépuisable d’inspiration, tant dans les sujets que l’artiste aborde : le fantasme, l’errance et la perdition ; que dans la façon dont elle s’empare de ...
Du 20 octobre 2015 au 23 janvier 2016, la Galerie des Galeries invite l’artiste américaine Alex Prager pour sa première exposition personnelle en France.
À cette occasion, la photographe et réalisatrice présente ses œuvres récentes, dont notamment son dernier film.
Alex Prager s’est fait connaître par ses mises en scène très précises au sein desquelles elle cite l’imagerie de l’âge d’or du film dramatique hollywoodien pour mieux révéler l’étrangeté de la vie individuelle et sociale contemporaine.
La ville de Los Angeles, où elle est née, est pour elle une source inépuisable d’inspiration, tant dans les sujets que l’artiste aborde: le fantasm...
Fragment de réalité, empreinte lumineuse, témoin support de notre histoire personnelle et collective, médium artistique, la photographie est actrice de nos pratiques sociales. Elle est une forme qui habite et construit notre regard, un support de nos projections imaginaires. Depuis sa création au milieu du XIXème siècle, elle a profondément modifié l’expérience de la vision, de l’espace et du temps, en fondant une nouvelle relation avec le continuum du réel. Tarek Nahas, souhaitant partager sa passion pour l’image photographique avec le grand public, a imaginé et organisé Open Rhapsody. Cette exposition présente un ensemble de photographies et de vidéos, comptant parmi les démarches artistique...
For ten years, Los Angeles artist Alex Prager has staged imaginary scenes for her camera—dream worlds in Technicolor, rife with tension and melodramatic fictions. Deftly blending archetypes from post-war America, her images have re-enacted and burlesqued media portrayals of women, drawing from classic Hollywood movies, fashion advertising, and icons of documentary photography. Face in the Crowd, Prager’s first solo museum show in the United States, presents her latest body of work by the same title.
As Prager’s most ambitious and complex series to date, Face in the Crowd features large-scale photographs of people assembled in congested public spaces such as an airport terminal, lobby, beach, and movie theater. Blurring the line between fiction and reality, Prager directed the actions of hundreds ...
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New York – The AIPAD Photography Show New York, one of the world’s most important annual photography events, will be held April 4-7, 2013, at the Park Avenue Armory. Presented by The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), the fair is the longest-running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography.
Three Malian women © Seidou Keïta
More than 80 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum-quality work including contemporary, modern, and 19th-century photographs, as well as photo-based art, video, and new media. The 33rd edition of the show will commence with an opening night gala on April 3, 2013, to benefit inMotion, which provides free legal...
Alex Prager : Compulsion
On 31 August, Foam welcomes a new exhibition by Alex Prager (Los Angeles, 1979). Prager is the winner of the 2012 Foam Paul Huf Award. This prize is organised by Foam and awarded annually to a young, promising international photographer under 35. Part of the prize is an exhibition at Foam. Compulsion will be presented at Foam from 31 August to 14 October. The exhibition will feature a selection of colour photographs from the series, as well as the artist’s new short film, La Petite Mort, with accompanying film stills.
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The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (in 1870 established by law) is an artists’ institute for selected national and international top talent. It’s name refers to the classical Akademia, a place wh...
Michael Hoppen is pleased to present Compulsion, an exhibition of new work by contemporary artist Alex Prager. The exhibition will feature 22 colour photographs from the series, as well as the artist’s new short film, La Petite Mort, with accompanying film stills. The exhibition will be shown simultaneously in London, Los Angles and New York.
MoMA curator Roxana Marcoci has described Prager’s work as “intentionally loaded,” saying “it reminds me of silent movies – there is something pregnant, about to happen, a mix of desire and angst.” Prager’s new work furthers her exploration of subversive narratives through the construction of “scenes” inspired by tragedies depicted in the media and paired with emotive close-ups of eyes. The eyes, whether interpreted...
Avec The Americana, M+B et Colette présentent une exposition qui célèbre l'Amerique, avec des artistes dont le travail va de la photo documentaire, mettant en lumière des moments-clés du 20ème siècle, à des œuvres contemporaines plus conceptuelles. En creux, l'exposition montre donc l'évolution de la photographie et de l'art américain depuis les années 1950.
Les travaux de Lisa Jack, Le Roy Grannis, Hugh Holland, Joseph Szabo et Hunter S. Thompson sont une vitrine des mouvements des années 1960-70. Grannis et Holland ont choisi comme forme de rebellion le surf et le skate, symboles de la côte Ouest américaine. Szabo, leur homologue de la côte Est, et son travail sur la Jonas Beach des 70s, i...
The 2010 edition of MoMA's annual photography series highlights the work of Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho, four contemporary artists who engage photography as a medium with fluid borders between editorial work, film, and visual art. Their pictures—whether shot in the real world, manipulated in the studio, or culled from pop culture, advertising, and the movie industry—have shifted contexts at least once, often from the magazine page to the gallery wall. Infusing the seductive language of film and commercial photography with a touch of sly conceptualism, they explore the relationship between straight and constructed photographs and still and moving images. The exhibition features 36 works of photography and film; Lassry's Untitled (2009) and the U.S. debut of Prager's De...
Michael Hoppen Contemporary will present the most recent work by rising American photographer Alex Prager. Following the success of her 2008 critically acclaimed exhibit, The Big Valley, the exhibition will stage the continuation of Prager’s Los Angeles narrative, as she contrives the next generation of retro-modern damsels.
Women adorned with wigs and staged in neon Californian landscapes result in timeless, eerie and compelling images. Her large-format Technicolor photographs draw from the cinematic conventions of the likes of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch. These visually engaging portraits go deeper than what meets the eye, creating an intriguing and surreal narrative for the women they feature, which hints at a sense of allure and uncertainty.
Initially inspired by the work of William Eggl...
M+B is pleased to present the exhibition Week-End, the latest body of work by 29-year old photographer ALEX PRAGER. Completely self-taught and recognized for her trademark vision that trumps any formal training, Prager’s Week-end is a collection of color photographs as dazzling as they are bizarre. Simultaneous with our Los Angeles exhibition, Week-end will be shown at the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City.
The culmination of a trilogy that began with Polyester and The Big Valley, Prager's Week-End began as organically as her other series. Inspired by the high drama of classic movies—which, despite their theatricality, touch upon genuine emotions of alienation, fear, anger, longing, and lust—Prager's images seem at first to be all exquisite surface. However the girls of this series&mda...
How do you describe colour?
Even the dictionary definition of it is poetic:
'That aspect of things that is caused by differing qualities of the light reflected or emitted by them, definable interms of the observer or of the light.'
And;
'a substance, such as a dye, pigment, or paint, that imparts a hue.'
And;
'a reddening of the face; a blush'.
The scientific words to objectify it are beautiful too: hyperchromatism, wavelength, luminance, iridescence and purity.
Since 1861 and the first permanent colour print by James Clerk Maxwell, photographers have been able to define their subjects in a more immediate and creative way using colour- stripping it out, intensifying or limiting it. The Michael Hoppen Contemporary Christmas show about a group of artists who utilize cyan, magenta, yellow and black i...
Cinematic and darkly playful The Big Valley is a series of highly saturated staged portraits by Los Angeles based artist, Alex Prager. For her first solo UK exhibition this entirely new work will be shown alongside photographs from her high-successful Polyester series.
Prager photographs her female subjects in a style reminiscent of the great mid 20th Century film directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Douglas Sirk. Amongst the naivety of her compositions and colour palate there is the suggestion of impending narrative. Similar to old style movie stills displayed outside cinemas, Prager's photographs offer us stories that encourage us to imagine what happens before and after, beyond the edge of the frame. Often shot from an unexpected angle and unusually lit the audience are positioned as voyeurs. Synthetic wigs, fak...