Charles H. Traub

Charles H. Traub (born April 6, 1945) is an American photographer and educator. He founded the MFA program in photography, video, and related media at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and has been chair of the program since 1988. As an author, he is widely held in libraries.[1]

Early life and education

Traub was born on April 6, 1945 in Louisville, Kentucky. He earned his BA in English literature at the University of Illinois. During his senior year, he began to work with a camera his father left him when he died, and took a class with the photographer Art Sinsabaugh.[2]

After college, Traub joined the Peace Corps in Ethiopia. He married a fellow Peace Corps member, who died shortly after arriving in Ethiopia. Traub himself was injured and returned home. Although he enrolled in a graduate program in humanities at the University of Louisville, he was drafted into the United States Army as an infantryman but was subsequently discharged for medical reasons incurred during his time with the Peace Corps.[2]

Traub earned his Master of Science at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Illinois, where he studied with Aaron Siskind, among others. During this time, he began to experiment with formats and processes in his landscape photographs of Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois. He has said "You probably recognize the similar sentiment that exists in all of those earlier pictures; they all share a certain kind of Southern Gothic, spooky, nostalgic, and maudlin sensibility. It was part of how I grew up in Kentucky."[3]

Career

When Traub graduated from IIT, he found that there were few teaching positions in photography at programs of art and design. He developed a department of photography at Columbia College Chicago (now housing the Museum of Contemporary Photography). Later, he was invited to New York City to become the director of Light Gallery, where he remained until 1980. During this time, he attempted to connect the communities of photographers and artists working in other media.[3]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ "Traub, Charles H.". worldcat.org. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Bui, Phong. "Charles Traub with Phong Bui". The Brooklyn Rail (May 2011).
  3. 1 2 "Lunchtime Portraits: The Passing Parade". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2 August 2016.

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