Sheryl from Week-End
A cinematic and dramatically staged photograph, this chromogenic print by Alex Prager captures a lone female figure bathed in vivid, saturated color reminiscent of classic Hollywood technicolor films. Prager's meticulous attention to lighting, costume, and composition evokes a sense of psychological tension and mid-century nostalgia, drawing the viewer into an ambiguous narrative moment frozen in time. The image reflects Prager's signature style of constructing elaborately orchestrated scenes that blur the line between reality and theatrical fiction.
- Medium
- Chromogenic print.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
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Photographs
April 4, 2016
Artists in conversation
Gregory Crewdson
American · b. 1962
Crewdson creates elaborately staged cinematic photographs with saturated artificial lighting and solitary figures caught in psychologically tense, ambiguous narrative moments, directly mirroring Prager's construction of frozen mid-century suburban unease.
Cindy Sherman
American · b. 1954
Sherman's staged figurative photography uses costume, lighting, and deliberate artifice to construct enigmatic female personas with strong cinematic and psychological tension, sharing Prager's fascination with constructed identity and filmic visual language.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
American · b. 1951
DiCorcia's meticulously lit narrative photographs blend documentary staging with vivid saturated color and theatrical cinematic atmosphere, creating psychologically charged single frame stories that closely parallel Prager's orchestrated chromogenic approach.
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