New favourite photographer alert - Alex Prager (she's a woman), an American photographer who caught my eye a few years ago unknowingly with a small article in i-D magazine, I discovered more about on Style Rookie recently/ She is known for her unusually styled 60s coloured images.
The themes are obvious in her work: women, styled in a 60s Hitchcock protagonist way, suburbia, Valley of the Dolls, California, planes and birds passing by. I like to think one of the messages in these photographs is the accessibility to timelessness. That despite everything, not a lot has changed for people, and looks can be deceiving. There's probably some underlined feminist message in them somewhere too, but I'm not too interested in feminism.
I like these because I feel they can influence future work I want to do, however, I don't want to imitate photographers I like, though I do like everything she references here, especially aeroplanes and bygone styles that juxtapose a current situation in today's society.
I love everything about her photo's however, in simple terms. The positioning, the angles, the mystery to them. Photos that make you ask questions are always good photos.
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