#Alex Prager photography

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TALL CANS & SMOKES ALL AROUND... "TREADING THE LINE BEYOND REALITY AND ARTIFICE."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on my favorite of all Alex's pieces -- Top image: "The Big Valley: Susie and Friends," by Alex Prager, c. 2008 © Alex Prager Studio and Lehmann Maupin, New York and Hong Kong.

CAUSING A SCENE: "Growing up under the pristine skies of Hollywood Boulevard, the film industry’s greatest exporter in melodrama and fantasy, the line between reality and artifice was always something of a blur for renowned photographer Alex Prager.

Therefore it seems only natural that she would imbibe many of the same aesthetic codes through her work, but whereas Hollywood sells dreams, Prager interrogates them: using photography and film to examine the interplay between fact and fiction, light and dark, perfection and chaos. These are just some of the inherent tensions that lie at the centre of her ten year oeuvre and which now, on the eve of her first mid-career retrospective, she is breaking down and shuffling into order."

-- HERO-MAGAZINE, "Treading the line between reality and artifice with renowned photographer Alex Prager," by Finn Blythe, published June 18, 2018

Source: https://hero-magazine.com/article/124604/treading-the-line-between-reality-and-artifice-with-renowned-photographer-alex-prager.

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Elizabeth Olsen for W Magazine, 2011

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Alex Prager's cinematicTableView ➤

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(via Blue: Art for the Ocean Curated by Jefferson Hack | AnOther)

Alex Prager (b. 1979), Renee, 2010

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Alex Prager (American b. 1979, lives and works in Los Angeles), California, Too, 2024. Archival pigment print, 121.9 x 121.9 cm. | 48 x 48 in.

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Alex Prager

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Alex Prager, Cats, 2017

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Alex Prager, 2017

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Alexandra, 2007

Alex Prager

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Alex Prager, Four girls, 2007..

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ONLINE FINDS FOR THE CURIOUS KINDS -- THE BEGINNING OF THE END IS NIGH.

NOTE: ^So, I'm thinking of retiring these "Tumblr Cover photo" sets next year, but I really haven't made up my mind about it yet. These take up a lot of my time, and I'm thinking of just focusing on singular posts for the foreseeable future.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on more December cover photos, and the third to the last set of the entire year -- and I'll be putting this series to rest two more posts from now.

In this set, I am featuring:

"Spider-Man -- The Todd McFarlane Era" trading card artwork, cover art to the "Ten to Twenty" (1999) single by the SNEAKER PIMPS, the Trendkill Snake from PANTERA's "The Great Southern Trendkill," the Sea-goddess/Sea-witch from "Conan the Barbarian" Vol. 1 #98, a photography piece titled "The Big Valley: Susie and Friends" by Alex Prager, a promotional image for the "Li II" resin sculpture by McFarlane Toys, a 1996 Japanese BJÖRK concert tour poster, and a live shot of Dutch hardcore punk band B.G.K. (BALTHASAR GERARDS KOMMANDO).

Sources: Beckett's Marketplace, Pinterest, Alternative Tentacles, McFarlane Toys, View Comic Online, discogs, Worship Metal, various, etc...

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꩜ Whispers in the Dark ➤

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Alex Prager Photography

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Visualising Time/Creative Recording Seminar - Paul Tarpey

Notes:

Time based art has the subject of time visualised in predetermined or spontaneius form

Research material can become an artwork in itself

Yves Klein - Leap Into the Void

Jackson Pollock - his energy was embodied in hid canvases

Lisa Ohlweiler - Performance art

Alex Prager - Seconds, 2021

“Where the artist puts something in focus, it directs the eye towards... and it and suggests what the artist wants to say”

Vito Acconci - Following Piece

Maria Antelman - Photographic Sculpture

Boyd Webb - Exploring the physcial laws of representation in photography

Black and white is more graphic better for shadows, colour is better to showcase objects

Arthur Tress - Glass Box

Morten Lasskogen

Azuma - Defining time-based material

(flowers in ice)

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Alex Prager (American b. 1979, lives and works in Los Angeles), Play the Wind Big West, 2019. Photograph 59 x 76.27 in. 

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SEMINAR RESPONSE

Visualising time

Time based art has the subject of time visualised in predetermined/ spontaneous form. During the seminar Paul talked about many artists who visualise time in their work.

I was really drawn to Alex pragers work titled ‘Seconds’ 2021.

The artist states that ‘seconds’ is the physical act of travelling through something.’ It gives off the impression of being in limbo. Like a never ending tunnel.

Alex pragers other work also contains lots of movement and a fleeting sense of panic

Another artist Paul talked about that visualises time is Gillian Wearing.

“Sixty minute silence” 1996

Wearing examines movement in artwork. For this piece a fixed video camera was used to record a group of actors dressed as police, who were directed to remain motionless for an hour.

Gillian wearing was conscious that after a while the actors would eventually have to move, and in doing so break the illusion of stability , suggested by the pose.

This seminar taught me that photography and visualising time in photo / video communicates who you are and what you do