Who's that lady? The Photos of Alex Prager
She is my new american idol. She is the photographer Alex Prager. Raised by her grandparents, Prager lived part time in Los Angeles, Florida, and Switzerland, which made her grammer school career understandably difficult. Deciding to skip art school (praise her), she taught herself the craft of photography through trial and error. Prager's juicy depictions of lovely ladies, ladies dressed in vintage clothing, portray an eerie Hitchcockian nostalgia that bleeds with color and vibrance. My favorite images are these iconic styled photographs with traces of contemporary Americana. She has already been compared to Diane Arbus and Annie Leibovitz (I smell success). Like Arbus and Leibovitz, she is a woman. Like Arbus, she photographs the bizaar and slightly off-putting, but that's where the comparison ends for me. Prager's images contain a distinct flair and style that makes her depictions of women unique unto themselves. Alex Prager is currently showing at M+B Gallery in L.A.
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GregoryMarch 7, 2010
Her work is pretty fantastic. Cindy Sherman also gets thrown around with comparisons; staged, playful, 'classic' femininity. Prager's second to last photo the woman next to the road is at least an homage to Sherman's Untitled Film Stills #48.