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Alex Prager: Silver Lake Drive

By (author) Alex Prager
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Published: 14th Jun 2018
Dimensions: w 249mm h 313mm d 24mm
Weight: 1555g
ISBN-10: 0500544972
ISBN-13: 9780500544976
Barcode No: 9780500544976
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Synopsis
Alex Prager is one of the truly original image makers of our time. Working fluidly between photography and film, she creates large-scale projects that combine elaborately built sets, highly staged, complex performances and a 'Hollywood' aesthetic to produce still and moving images that are familiar yet strange, utterly compelling and unerringly memorable. In her career she has won both popular acclaim and the recognition of the art establishment - her work can be found in the collections of MoMA and the Whitney Museum in New York as well as institutions worldwide. This book is the first career retrospective of this rising star. In 120 carefully curated photographs, it summarizes Prager's creative trajectory and offers an ideal introduction for the popular 'breakout' audience who may have only recently encountered her work. Structured around her project-orientated approach, Silver Lake Drive presents the very best images from her career to date: from the early Film Stills through her collaborations with the actor Bryce Dallas Howard on Week-end and Despair to the tour de force of Face in the Crowd - shot on a Hollywood sound stage with over 150 performers - and her 2015 commission for the Paris opera La Grande Sortie. Supported by an international exhibition schedule, and including an in-depth interview with Alex Prager by Nathalie Herschdorfer and supplementary essays by the curators of renowned museums and galleries, this book will be an essential addition to the collection of anyone who has followed Prager's career and all with an interest in and appreciation of contemporary art.

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'Lavish' - Observer 'Prager's work combines technical perfection with an old-school Hollywood imagination' - The Herald 'Prager has mastered a 'film still' aesthetic [...] that harks back to the Technicolor shockers of Hollywood's golden age' - Christie's 'Grab[s] your attention and refuses to give it back' - Strong Words Magazine 'You can't help but stop and stare at an image by Alex Prager' - It's Nice That 'An essential collectible for any photographic, cinematic and visual art enthusiasts out there' - .Cent 'Prager is a true alchemist and once you step foot in her world, nothing is how it seems' - AnOther 'Luminous' - SLEEK 'High-glamour, luminous and extremely covetable' - The i newspaper 'Cinematic allusions that combine the romantic, anxious and surreal' - Elephant Magazine 'Prager's distinctive works cross the worlds of art, fashion, photography and film, exposing the human melodrama and dark unsettling undercurrents that are threaded in her subject matter' - Creative Review 'Prager creates dazzling sets that are meticulously structured, making you look twice at the strangeness, beauty and colour of her world ... this book brings together the best of her career to date' - New Statesman