Alex Prager at Lehmann Maupin Gallery

Alex Prager has explained that living in LA, she doesn’t have a lot of experience with crowds.  Her latest body of photos and her film ‘Face in the Crowd,’ makes a break with the norm though as Prager directs actor Elizabeth Banks and hundreds of other actors on constructed sets as they play out scenes of crowd dynamics from the thrilling to the terrifying.  (At Chelsea’s Lehmann Maupin Gallery through Feb 22nd).  

Alex Prager, still from ‘Face in the Crowd’ at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, January, 2013.