New York City’s first-ever Latin American Foto Festival, the dark side of Los Angeles with Alex Prager, Reba Maybury on how capitalism has ruined sex, and a fun house from Snarkitecture
By Ashleigh Kane
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SILVER LAKE DRIVE, ALEX PRAGER, PHOTOGRAPHERS’ GALLERY, LONDON
Currently on at The Photographers’ Gallery is a major new exhibition of Alex Prager – the first-mid career survey of the American photographer and filmmaker. The show spans two floors and including over 40 photographs, as well as her notable large-scale Technicolour images and her entire film oeuvre. A blend of art, fashion, and film, Prager’s works are applauded for “exposing human melodrama and dark unsettling undercurrents”, and often nod to 20th century Hollywood. Speaking with AnOther last month, she mused on how Los Angeles has influenced her: “The city itself was built on artifice,” she said. “It’s a strange alternative reality. There is perfection on the surface, but the underbelly is right there and if you dip your toe in just a little bit, it gets ugly, weird and strange. I’m constantly examining these hidden layers.”
Silver Lake Drive runs at London’s Photographers’ Gallery until October 14, 2018