Everything is autobiographical here, as Alexander is \u201ccommitted to bringing as many lights outside the studio as possible\u201d \u2013 recreating studio aesthetics to \u201ccomplex-ify\u201d his lighting, the simple flash will no longer suffice. Although it\u2019s simple, Alexander forewarns \u201cwe\u2019re no longer within simple times.\u201d He\u2019s sworn to \u201centering the world of the hat\u201d, (a reference to Stephen Sondheim\u2019s song Finishing The Hat, a classic tune all about the reverence of everyday objects) and in the process, Alexander is tailoring each subject to its setting, finding each item or person\u2019s most interesting light.<\/p>\n
Evidently, Alexander\u2019s storybuilding skills are exercised in a diptych of photos that show a funeral and a birthday, both equally solemn, emotionally vague, intimate but also faraway. There\u2019s worry in the water and something in the air in New York City \u2013 and Alexander communicates it, whether it\u2019s through the narrative thread that effortlessly ties everything together, the jobs and routines and lives of transients, the invisible, but deeply felt, waveforms of city-life. Theatre plays a character in these photos \u2013 \u201ca face you cannot read is theatre, it is life, it involves the viewer,\u201d says Alexander, as the strange beauty of death and another rotation around the sun somehow become one in the same. \u201cI\u2019ve always been pretty committed to visible, liminal emotionality. Raised in theatre, I enjoy the task of squeezing everything I\u2019ve loved about that ethereal, ephemeral theatre into stock-still and palsied photography. I\u2019m just tryin\u2019 to getch-ya to look a while longer.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everything is autobiographical here, as Alexander is \u201ccommitted to bringing as many lights outside the studio as possible\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-425709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}