- Barbara Traub
Barbara Traub is an American
photographer who was born and raised inBaltimore, Maryland . Several years after graduating fromJohns Hopkins , she went to art school in Italy for a semester with the intention of doing painting and drawing, but at the last minute was loaned aLeica and decided that she'd rather roam Florence with a camera.Career
Her early work was influenced primarily by the street photography/decisive moment aesthetics of
Robert Frank ,Josef Koudelka , andHenri Cartier-Bresson . In 1987 she won first place in an annual newspaper photo contest and held her first exhibition. Two years later, she went around the world and spent most of her time in Southeast Asia making informal portraits of people in their surroundings. Soon thereafter, she was introduced to the work ofMan Ray whose attention to surrealism, abstraction, and multimedia further influenced her style. She began a series of nudes abstracted in the landscape where the body often seems to blend with earth and sky becoming one all powerful creation. [Here we have an artist with a vision so clear. Kaiser, Andrew [http://www.newnudemag.com/en/exclusive/28.html - New Nude] ]In 1994 Traub moved to San Francisco. That summer she went to
Lake Tahoe to shoot some more nudes and heard of theBlack Rock Desert and shortly afterward itsBurning Man . She was looking for a new project to photograph and thought this could definitely be it. Three weeks later she was back out there again for her first Burning Man and subsequently for the following nine years. In 1996 she worked on assignment for "Wired Magazine 's" cover story and again for "Wired News" in 2001 and 2006. She was chief photographer for HardWired's 1997 book "Burning Man", curator of the 'Art of Burning Man' exhibition at Photo SF 2004, and author of "Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography," published in 2006 to favorable reviews. [A lovely book, beautifully shot, surreal and random and appropriately odd. Morford, Mark - [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=9021 SFGate] "] [Traub's skill with the camera is clearly on display in "Desert to Dream". Orellana, Erik - [http://www.takegreatpictures.com/HOME/Columns/Photo_Book_Reviews/Details/desert_to_dream.fci Take Great Pictures] ] [A Welcome Addition to Photographic Studies Collections. Midwest Book Review - [http://www.immedium.com/news/news_midwestbook1106.html Immedium ] ]Books
*"Burning Man" - Hardwired, 1997. ISBN 1888869135.
*"Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography" - Immedium, 2006. ISBN 1597020036.ources
Official Website
* [http://www.home.earthlink.net/~traubleaux/ Traubleaux Photography]
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