Alex Prager: Week-End

Photographer Alex Prager completes her trilogy of intriguingly unnerving photographs—awkwardly posing her doll-like subjects in vintage-inspired panoramas—with her upcoming exhibition "Week-End" at NYC's Yancey Richardson Gallery. The source of a lot of buzz at the recent 2009 Pulse Fair in Miami, Prager's highly-saturated heroines and oft-startling scenes speak to her fondness for David Lynch and Hitchcock films, as well as her belief that deep down …

Hugh Hefner’s Playboy

If the recent buzz around Playboy's rebranding has you hankering for more, Taschen's massive six-volume collection, titled "Hugh Hefner's Playboy" explores the magazine's phenomenal impact on nudity and sex. As Playboy faces declining sales and moves to bolster new readership, the collection suggests Playboy ongoing relevance today. The collection includes a page-for-page reproduction of the very first issue with cover star Marilyn Monroe, as well …

Davide Tranchina: Big Bang

by Paolo Ferrarini of Future Concept Lab In his latest solo exhibition Italian photographer Davide Tranchina presents a cycle of new works that experiments with a different side of photography. Placing everyday objects on photographic paper, Tranchina scans and enlarges the negative shadows to create his large-scale black-and-white images. While previous projects like “Safari Metropolitano†and “Natura Morta†aimed to find reproductions of animals and …