Traub’s photographs have also appeared in a
variety of magazines and journals including:Con-
noisseur,Fortune,Newsweek,U.S. News & World
Report,American Photographer,Popular Photogra-
phy,Aperture, andAfterimage.
CarlaRoseShapiroSeealso: Institute of Design (New Bauhaus);
Moholy-Nagy, La ́szlo ́; Peress, Gilles
Biography
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, 6 April 1945. Received his
BA in English at the University of Illinois; MS from the
Institute for Design (ID) at the Illinois Institute of Tech-
nology. At ID studied with Art Sinsabaugh and Aaron
Siskind. Founding director of the Chicago Center for
Contemporary Photography, (now the Museum of Con-
temporary Photography); Chairperson of the Photogra-
phy Department at Columbia College (Chicago,
Illinois); Former director of the Light Gallery in New
York City from 1977–1980; Chair of the Graduate MFA
Program in Photography, Video and Related Media at
the School of Visual Arts in New York City; President of
the Aaron Siskind Foundation for support of creative
photography; principal of Charles H. Traub Photogra-
phy, a photographic consulting firm; Co-founder of the
exhibition,Here is New York: A Democracy of Photo-
graphs, which received the Brendan Gill Award and the
International Center of Photography (ICP) Cornell
Capa Infinity Award. Other Awards and Honors: New
York State Council on the Arts; Hendricks Foundation
Award; Illinois Art Council; Manda Grant; Brendan
Gill Award; Distinguished Service Award, Children’s
Aid Society. Living in New York, NY. Represented by
the Gitterman Gallery, New York.
Individual Exhibitions
1975 Photographs by Charles Traub; Art Institute of Chi-
cago, Chicago, Illinois
1977 Beach; Light Gallery, New York, New York
1978 Landscapes; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
1979 Faces; Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York
1979 Chicago Works; Chicago Center for Contemporary
Photography, Chicago, Illinois
1980 Street Portraits; Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea,
Milan, Italy
1982 Recent Works; Light Gallery, New York, New York
1982 Recognitions: Faces and Places; Hudson River Mu-
seum, Yonkers, New York
1984 Charles Traub: The Artist and His Models; Marcuse
Pfeiffer Gallery, New York, New York
1988 New York on the Edge; Municipal Art Society, New
York, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
1977 The Photographer and the City; Museum of Contem-
porary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1983 Citta`Sul Mare Con Porto; Museum Nationale Napoli,
Naples, Italy
1985 10 Photographers: The Olympics; Museum of Contem-
porary Art, Los Angeles, California
1987 57th Street; Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, New York
2002 Overnight to Many Cities; The Photographers’ Gal-
lery, London, England
2002 Taken by Design:Photographs from the Institute of
Design, 1937–1971; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
Illinois; (traveled to San Francisco Museum of Art, San
Francisco, California)Selected Works
Beach, 1978
Marriage on the Rocks, Naples, 1981
On the Edge,New York Waterfront, 1988Further Reading
Ballerini, Luigi. ‘‘Introduction.’’ InStill Life: Photographs by
Charles Traub. New York: The Quantuck Lane Press, 2004.
Eco, Umberto. ‘‘Preface.’’Italy Observed in Photography
and Literature. New York: Rizzoli, 1988.
Kramer, Hilton. Review ofBeach 1973–1976.The New
York Times, February 18, 1977.
Roth, Evelyn. ‘‘Turf & Surf: Charles Traub.’’American
Photography(August 1984).
Traub, Charles H. ‘‘Aaron Siskind, 1903–1991.’’Afterimage
vol. 18, no. 8 (March 1991): 4.
Traub, Charles.Beach. New York: Horizon Press, 1978.
Traub, Charles. ‘‘Childhood Photograph.’’ InReiner Leist,
American Portraits 1910–2001. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2001.
Traub, Charles.In the Still Life: Photographs by Charles
Traub. Introduction by Luigi Ballerini. New York: The
Quantuck Lane Press, 2004.
Traub, Charles. ‘‘Introduction.’’Aaron Siskind: Roadtrip
Photographs 1980–1988. New York: The Friends of
Photography, 1989.
Traub, Charles. ‘‘Metabolism of Photographic Truth in the Digi-
tal Age.’’digivol. 1, no. 3, Hong Kong Arts Council, 1994.
Traub, Charles. ‘‘Thoughts on Photography in Conquest of
the American Landscape.’’ InArt in The Land: A Criti-
cal Anthology of Environmental Art. Alan Sonfist, ed.
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1983.
Traub, Charles. ‘‘An Understanding.’’Tradition and the
Unpredictable: the Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collec-
tion. Houston, TX: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1994.
Traub, Charles, and Jerry Gordon.New York City Youth:
An Intimate Portrait, Summer Jobs ‘87. New York: New
York City Partnership Inc., 1987.
Traub, Charles H., and Jonathan Lipkin.In the Realm of
the Circuit: Computers, Art, and Culture. New York:
Prentice Hall, 2003.
Traub, Charles, and Jonathan Lipkin. ‘‘Digital Human-
ism.’’The Education of an E-Designer. Edited by Steven
Heller. New York: Allworth Press, 2001.
Traub, Charles, and Jonathan Lipkin. ‘‘Creative Interlocu-
tor and Multimedia Dialog.’’Design Issuesvol. 16, no. 2
(Summer 2000): 25–35.
Traub, Charles, and Jonathan Lipkin. ‘‘If We Are Digital.’’
In Special Issue ‘‘The Sixth Annual New York Digital
Salon.’’Leonardo31, no. 5 (1998): 363–366.TRAUB, CHARLES