Monday mayhem, as dreamed up by American photographer Alex Prager, known for her theatrically staged tableaux that perfectly encapsulate the absurdities of everyday life. “I’m in love with real people, and all the little details and struggles that make up their lives,” she explains in the new issue of Elephant, in a feature on the impact of Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s work on her own art. “The Walmart superstore, truck drivers, office workers. My own family definitely comes from this world. I feel like Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s work is a 16th-century version of the kind of working-class Americana I grew up around, and that inspires me.” Purchase issue 48 now to read on.
