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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

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.

via Corcoran Gallery of Art

In the commercial world of portrait, still life and fashion photography everything starts with Irving Penn.  There is not one photographer of note up until the 1990’s you could name whom he has not influenced. Photographers based entire careers making pictures informed by Penn’s incredible photographs (that are just as good today as ever).  This survey of his work is installed beautifully and all the hits are here to feast your eyes on.

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