Tag: staged photography

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.

Rodney Graham at 303 Gallery

Rodney Graham’s ‘Old Punk On Pay Phone’ may not be part of the Met’s much anticipated punk couture exhibition opening today; instead seen downtown at Chelsea’s 303 Gallery it begs the question of what punk counterculture means to this aging character, played by the 64 year old artist. (Through June 15th)  

Rodney Graham, Old Punk on Pay Phone, painted aluminum light box with transmounted chromogenic transparency, 2012.