When Alex Higgins' first manager, John Mc Laughlin, bestowed the nickname ' Hurricane Higgins' on the young, feisty snooker
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Alex Prager is one of the truly original image makers of our time. Working fluidly between photography & film, she creates large-scale projects that combine elaborately built sets, highly staged, complex performances & a ` Hollywood' aesthetic to produce still & moving images that are familiar yet strange, utterly compelling & unerringly memorable. In her career she has won both popular acclaim & the recognition of the art establishment
- her work can be found in the collections of Mo MA & 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 & 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 & Despair to the tour de force of Face in the Crowd
- shot on a Hollywood sound stage with over 150 performers
- & her 2015 commission for the Paris opera La Grande Sortie. Supported by an international exhibition schedule, & including an in-depth interview with Alex Prager by Nathalie Herschdorfer & supplementary essays by the curators of renowned museums & galleries, this book will be an essential addition to the collection of anyone who has followed Prager's career & all with an interest in & appreciation of contemporary art.