Charles H. Traub
| Charles H. Traub | |
|---|---|
2015 in New York City
|
|
| Born |
April 6, 1945 Louisville, Kentucky, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
Chicago Institute of Design University of Illinois |
| Occupation | Photographer, educator, author |
| Known for | Dolce Via In The Still Life Beach |
| Awards |
Brendan Gill Award ICP Infinity Award |
| Website | Official website |
Charles H. Traub (born April 6, 1945) is an American photographer and educator, known for his ironic real world witness color photography. He was chair of the photography department at Columbia College Chicago, where he established its Museum of Contemporary Photography (MOCP) in 1976, and became a director of New York's Light Gallery in 1977. Traub founded the MFA program in Photography, Video, and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1987, which was the first program of its kind to fully embrace digital photographic practice. He has been Chairperson of the program since. Traub has published more than 15 books of his photographs and writings on photography and media.
Born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, Traub earned his BA in English literature at the University of Illinois, where both his mother and father had also attended. In 1967, during his last semester of his senior year in college, he took his first photography class with the landscape photographer Art Sinsabaugh using the camera left to him by his recently deceased father. His family roots in both central Illinois and Kentucky gave inspiration for his early photographic work.
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 where he met fellow Kentuckian, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, who became an important inspiration and friend. 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.
...
Wikipedia