Charles Traub

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Chair, MFA Photography and Related Media Department, School of Visual Arts; principal, Charles H. Traub Photography; consulting photographic editor

MFA Photography, Video and Related Media
charlestraub.com

Education

BA, University of Illinois; MS, Illinois Institute of Technology


Professional experience includes

Director, Light Gallery; co-founder, here is new york 


One-person exhibitions include

Gitterman Gallery; Blue Sky Gallery; Light Gallery; Art Directors Guild of New York; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; Museum of Contemporary Photography; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; SF Camerawork, San Francisco; Art Institute of Chicago; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY


Books include

Dolce Via: Italy in the 1980s; The Education of the Photographer; In the Realm of the Circuit: Computers, Art, and Culture; In the Still Life; An Angler's Album: Fishing in Photography & Literature; Beach; The New Vision: Forty Years of Photography at the Institute of Design. Co-author, On the Edge–New York Waterfront; Italy Observed in Photography and Literature


Publications include

Connoisseur, Fortune, Newsweek, Aperture, U.S. News & World Report, Afterimage, Popular Photography, American Photographer, The New Yorker


Awards and honors include

New York State Council on the Arts; Hendricks Foundation Award; Illinois Art Council; Manda Grant; Olympic Arts Organization Committee; Cornell Capa Award, International Center of Photography; Brendan Gill Award; Distinguished Service Award, Children's Aid Society; Municipal Arts Society