 Chadds Ford, PA, 1987 Pigment print, 13 x 19 inches Charles H. Traub Gitterman Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of color photographs by Charles H. Traub (b. 1945) concurrent with the release of his second monograph, "In the Still Life" (The Quantuck Lane Press, 2004). The photographs are Traub's quick and candid reactions to everyday life over the past two decades. His compositions capture ironic and often humorous juxtapositions that occur regularly within our social landscape, but often go unnoticed. As the title of Traub's book suggests, each photograph creates an inherent "still life" by holding a glimpse for us to consider, often allowing the image to transcend its original context. Unlike much of the photography in contemporary art today, Traub's images are "observations in the real world". They thus seem to be a reaction against the current vogue in image making that is fictive, directional or constructed. It is Traub's belief that "the things that happen in everyday life are so improbable and amazing that they defy imagination". He finds this pure discovery the ultimate reward. A student of Aaron Siskind's at the Institute of Design in the late 1960s, Charles H. Traub has been photographing for over 35 years. Traub is the chairperson of the MFA program in Photography, Video and Related Media at the School for Visual Arts in New York City. He is also a co-founder of the exhibition "Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs" and was the director of Light Gallery in the late 1970s. Charles H. Traub's photographs are represented in many institutional collections including: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; George Eastman House, Rochester, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France; Fogg Museum, Boston, Massachusetts; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Illinois; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Exhibition: February 8 - April 2, 2005 Gallery hours: Wed-Sat 11 am - 6 pm, and by appointment Gitterman Gallery 170 East 75th Street USA-New York, NY 10021 Telephone +1 212 734 0868 Fax +1 212 734 0869 Email info@gittermangallery.com www.gittermangallery.com |
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