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Auction archive: Lot number 186

Alex Prager

Photographs
1 Apr 2010
Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$43,750
Auction archive: Lot number 186

Alex Prager

Photographs
1 Apr 2010
Estimate
US$15,000 - US$20,000
Price realised:
US$43,750
Beschreibung:

Alex Prager Crowd #1 from Week-End 2010 Archival pigment print. 24 x 40 3/4 in. (61 x 103.5 cm) Signed, titled, dated and numbered 5/7 in ink on an artist's label affixed to the reverse of the flush-mount.
Provenance TRESART, Coral Gables Exhibited New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge Elad Lassry Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 29 September 2010– 10 January 2011 Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 23 November 2013– 9 March 2014 for both, another print exhibited Literature Photograph, November/December 2010, cover for a variant W, November 2010, cover for a variant Artist Bio Alex Prager American • 1979 Influenced by pulp fiction and cinematic tropes, self-taught photographer and film-maker Alex Prager creates striking, sometimes unnerving images that are filled with a dynamic cast of characters. The hyperreal worlds she creates are packed with human melodrama, like the retro 'damsel in distress' character that regularly makes appearances in Prager's brightly colored and dramatically lit scenes. With influences ranging from David Lynch Alfred Hitchcock William Eggleston Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson Prager references the vivid aesthetics of mid-twentieth century American cinema and photography. Pairing photographs alongside her films as part of her practice, Prager presents an eerie, alternative world where more questions are asked than answered. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 186
Auction:
Datum:
1 Apr 2010
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
Beschreibung:

Alex Prager Crowd #1 from Week-End 2010 Archival pigment print. 24 x 40 3/4 in. (61 x 103.5 cm) Signed, titled, dated and numbered 5/7 in ink on an artist's label affixed to the reverse of the flush-mount.
Provenance TRESART, Coral Gables Exhibited New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge Elad Lassry Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 29 September 2010– 10 January 2011 Alex Prager: Face in the Crowd, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 23 November 2013– 9 March 2014 for both, another print exhibited Literature Photograph, November/December 2010, cover for a variant W, November 2010, cover for a variant Artist Bio Alex Prager American • 1979 Influenced by pulp fiction and cinematic tropes, self-taught photographer and film-maker Alex Prager creates striking, sometimes unnerving images that are filled with a dynamic cast of characters. The hyperreal worlds she creates are packed with human melodrama, like the retro 'damsel in distress' character that regularly makes appearances in Prager's brightly colored and dramatically lit scenes. With influences ranging from David Lynch Alfred Hitchcock William Eggleston Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson Prager references the vivid aesthetics of mid-twentieth century American cinema and photography. Pairing photographs alongside her films as part of her practice, Prager presents an eerie, alternative world where more questions are asked than answered. View More Works

Auction archive: Lot number 186
Auction:
Datum:
1 Apr 2010
Auction house:
Phillips
New York
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