Barbara Traub is a American photographer who was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Several years after graduating from Johns Hopkins, she went to an art school in Italy for a semester with the intention of doing painting and drawing, but at the last minute was loaned a Leica and decided that she'd rather roam Florence with a camera. This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... Nickname: Motto: The Greatest City in America,[4] Get in on it. ... This article is about the person. ... Image:Leica-Logo. ...

Career

Her early work was influenced primarily by the street photography/decisive moment aesthetics of Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka, and Henri 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 of Ralph Gibson whose attention to detail, high-contrast, and surrealism 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.^[1] Robert Franks noted book, The Americans (1958) Robert Frank (born November 9, 1924), born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. ... Josef Koudelka (b. ... Portrait of Henri Cartier-Bresson taken by George Platt Lynes. ... Ralph Gibson (born January 16th, 1939, Los Angeles, California) is an American art photographer best known for his photographic books. ...

In 1994 Traub moved to San Francisco. That summer she went to Lake Tahoe to shoot some more nudes and heard of the Black Rock Desert and shortly afterward its Burning 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 (her first time shooting digital) 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.^{[2] [3] [4]} Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the United States, located along the border between California and Nevada at Lake Tahoes major bend west of Carson City. ... The Black Rock Desert is a dry lake bed in northwestern Nevada in the United States. ... Burning Man is an eight-day-long festival organized by Black Rock City, LLC, under the guidance of founder Larry Harvey. ... Wired is a full-color monthly magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993. ...

Books

• Burning Man (joint author). Hardwired, 1997. ISBN 1888869135.
• Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography. Immedium, 2006. ISBN 1597020036.

Sources

1. ^ Here we have an artist with a vision so clear. Kaiser, Andrew - New Nude
2. ^ A lovely book, beautifully shot, surreal and random and appropriately odd. Morford, Mark - SFGate
3. ^ Traub's skill with the camera is clearly on display in Desert to Dream. Orellana, Erik - Take Great Pictures
4. ^ A Welcome Addition to Photographic Studies Collections. Midwest Book Review - Immedium

Official Website

• Traubleaux Photography