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| Popular As | Alex Prager |
| Occupation | Director |
| Age | 44 years old |
| Zodiac Sign | Scorpio |
| Born | November 1, 1979 () |
| Birthday | November 1 |
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Alex Prager’s zodiac sign is Scorpio. According to astrologers, Scorpio-born are passionate and assertive people. They are determined and decisive, and will research until they find out the truth. Scorpio is a great leader, always aware of the situation and also features prominently in resourcefulness. Scorpio is a Water sign and lives to experience and express emotions. Although emotions are very important for Scorpio, they manifest them differently than other water signs. In any case, you can be sure that the Scorpio will keep your secrets, whatever they may be.
Alex Prager was born in the Year of the Goat. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Goat enjoy being alone in their thoughts. They’re creative, thinkers, wanderers, unorganized, high-strung and insecure, and can be anxiety-ridden. They need lots of love, support and reassurance. Appearance is important too. Compatible with Pig or Rabbit.
Alex Prager (b. 1979, lives and works in Los Angeles) is a director and writer, known for Despair (2010), Touch of Evil (2011), Face in the Crowd (2013) and La Grande Sortie (2016).She began her career as a photographer after seeing a William Eggleston Exhibition and has seamlessly expanded into film-making.
Her work consists of elaborately staged scenes that draw inspiration from a wide range of influences and references, including old Hollywood cinema, experimental films, popular culture, and street photography.
Her familiar yet uncanny imagery depicts worlds that synthesize fiction and reality. The highly choreographed nature of her photographs and films embody a visual vocabulary and style that has become uniquely her own.
Prager's film series Touch of Evil, commissioned by The New York Times Magazine won her a 2012 Emmy Award. Despair, Prager's first film was exhibited alongside her photography in the New Photography show at The Museum of Modern Art (2010).
She was also commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet, which inspired her to create La Grande Sortie, a 10-minute film and a body of work that was shown at The Photographer's gallery London (2018). Her first major public commission, Applause, for Times Square Arts: Midnight Moment, New York, took place in the summer of 2017.
In June 2018, a major monograph of her work, Silver Lake Drive, was published by Thames & Hudson.Prager has had solo exhibitions of her work organized at Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle, Switzerland (forthcoming, 2018); The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2018); Des Moines Art Center, IA (2017-2018); Saint Louis Art Museum, MO (2015); Galerie des Galeries, Paris (2015); Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas (2015); National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (2014); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2013); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2013); and Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam (2012).
Select group exhibitions featuring her work include Telling Tales: Contemporary Narrative Photography, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX (2016-2015); Open Rhapsody, Beirut Exhibition Center, Lebanon (2015); The Noir Effect, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles (2014); No Fashion, Please: Photography Between Gender and Lifestyle, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2011); and New Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010).
Her work is in numerous international public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Australia; Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
