Alex Prager Exhibition at the Corcoran

November 23, 2013 — Leave a comment

Self trained photographer Alex Prager makes stills (and films) based on the film stills of the Golden Years of Hollywood. This will be here third solo museum exhibition.

Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd at the Corcoran Gallery of Art

November 23, 2013–March 9, 2014
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.

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