Alex Prager Quotes

• With photography, I like to leave a lot of the story, even to myself.

  Alex Prager

  Photography, Stories

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I am looking for the disconnected connection

  Alex Prager

  Connections, Disconnected

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• I think that's one of the reasons it's nice to leave out a lot; it can become a lot more personal to people if there is room for them to put their own experiential time track on it.

  Alex Prager

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I never plan anything in an analytical way before I shoot, but when I look back there seems to be kind of a primary color palette.

  Alex Prager

  Color, Looks, Way

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• The eyes sparked a lot of things for me, it could be somebody remembering something they had witnessed or heard about, or it could be the person in the photograph that was experiencing a tragedy or it could also be the spectator looking on from a safe distance.

  Alex Prager

  Distance, Eye, Tragedy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When I'm shooting in other cities, I'm just trying to make it look like California.

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  Cities, California, Trying

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I like to use really basic or classic colors, things that people have seen over and over and over again. Primary colors, at least in photography, have been around a lot longer than neon colors and really vibrant purples, hot pinks. Red, blue, yellow, orange - because of Kodachrome and the way that things were produced I think that those colors stood out more than any others.

  Alex Prager

  Photography, Thinking, Blue

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I think the worst reaction that I could get from someone to my photos is some sort of mediocre, middle-range reaction where they really get nothing from it, and they want to move on to the next thing. [I'd rather they be] horrified, pissed off at me, extremely disgusted at how bad of an artist I am.

  Alex Prager

  Moving, Artist, Thinking

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• It's always really scary to release new work.

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  Scary, New Work, Release

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I can't even imagine what it is like to make a movie that lasts two hours.

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  Two, Lasts, Imagine

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I never thought about the green, but LA has a lot of greenery.

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  Green, Greenery

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

  Alex Prager

  Mean, Lasts, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I lived in London for small amounts of time, and in Florida and New York.

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  New York, Florida, London

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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• I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.

  Alex Prager

  Names, Musical, Composer

  "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

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