Melodrama
Femme Fatale
Cinematic
Tension
Constructed narratives
Dramatic portraits
About the Cultural Text:
Barbara from the exhibition Week-end 2010
Alex Prager
Large Format
C-type print
Photograph
Kodak Portra colour film
Contax/ Mamiya 645
Critical Discourse:
The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes
Intertextuality
Post structuralism
Allusion
Taste & Class
Femininity & Stereotypes
Victor Burgin
Dominic Strinati
Post-Modernism
Other things to include:
Tense, singular portrait of a female
Playful nod to the underbelly of los angeles
highly styled with meticulous attention to detail
Wigs/ costume/ make up / lighting/ composition
Character engrossed within an off screen narrative
Fabricated Nostalgia
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