Barbara Traub
Encyclopedia
Barbara Traub is an American
photographer who was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Several years after graduating from Johns 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 a Leica and decided that she'd rather roam Florence with a camera.
, 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 Man Ray
whose attention to surrealism, abstraction, and multimedia further influenced her style.
In 1994 Traub moved to San Francisco
. That summer she went to Lake Tahoe
to shoot the figure as landscape and heard of the Black Rock Desert
and shortly afterward its Burning Man
. 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 2009 interview with Time Magazine declared the image on the book's cover to be an "Iconic Photo of Burning Man". The revised edition Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography relaunched in 2011 along with Apple's iOS
eBook version.
United States
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photographer who was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Several years after graduating from Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins
Johns Hopkins was a wealthy American entrepreneur, philanthropist and abolitionist of 19th-century Baltimore, Maryland, now most noted for his philanthropic creation of the institutions that bear his name, namely the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and the Johns Hopkins University and its associated...
, 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 a Leica 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 FrankRobert Frank
Robert Frank , born in Zürich, Switzerland, is an important figure in American photography and film. His most notable work, the 1958 photobook titled The Americans, was influential, and earned Frank comparisons to a modern-day de Tocqueville for his fresh and skeptical outsider's view of American...
, Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka
Josef Koudelka is a Czech photographer.-Biography:Josef Koudelka was born in 1938 in Boskovice, Moravia, town of about 10,000 inhabitants. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a 6 x 6 Bakelite camera...
, and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography...
. 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 Man Ray
Man Ray
Man Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...
whose attention to surrealism, abstraction, and multimedia further influenced her style.
In 1994 Traub moved to San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Area
The San Francisco Bay Area, commonly known as the Bay Area, is a populated region that surrounds the San Francisco and San Pablo estuaries in Northern California. The region encompasses metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose, along with smaller urban and rural areas...
. That summer she went to Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe
Lake Tahoe is a large freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada of the United States. At a surface elevation of , it is located along the border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City. Lake Tahoe is the largest alpine lake in North America. Its depth is , making it the USA's second-deepest...
to shoot the figure as landscape and heard of the Black Rock Desert
Black Rock Desert
The Black Rock Desert is an arid region in the northern Nevada section of the Great Basin with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of Pleistocene Lake Lahontan...
and shortly afterward its Burning Man
Burning Man
Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, in the United States. The event starts on the Monday before the American Labor Day holiday, and ends on the holiday itself. It takes its name from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening...
. 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 2009 interview with Time Magazine declared the image on the book's cover to be an "Iconic Photo of Burning Man". The revised edition Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography relaunched in 2011 along with Apple's iOS
IOS
iOS is an operating system for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV.IOS may also refer to:-Companies and organisations:* Illinois Ornithological Society, American state-based bird club...
eBook version.
Books
- Burning Man - Hardwired, 1997. ISBN 1888869135.
- Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography - Immedium, 2006. ISBN 1597020036.
- Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography - Immedium, 2011. ISBN 1597020268.