Barbara Traub is a photographer and multimedia artist currently residing in California. Daughter of a photographer father, she was born and raised in Baltimore and earned a degree in humanities from Johns Hopkins University. She then studied photography for a semester at SACI in Firenze and began her career at a daily newspaper and yearbook company. Her personal work became a search for the everyday poetic moments. In 1987 she won first place in the Baltimore Sun Magazine annual photo contest and went around the world to photograph people in their own milieu. Influenced by the abstract images of Ralph Gibson and Ruth Bernhard, Traub went on to explore the figure as landscape. A selection from this body of work is featured online in the New Nude, in Feierabend's Naked and Nudes Index I & II, and on guest room walls of the New Orleans Crowne Plaza. Micropublishing News of Northern CA identified her as "A San Francisco Photographer Who Specializes in the Surreal".
For a number of years Barbara has been to Burning Man, the annual arts and performance festival created by Bay Area artists held in the Nevada desert. Her photos from this series have appeared in publications such as Wired, Mondo 2000, Shift, Spiegel Online, ice, Eikones Tou Kosmou, Australian Financial Review, Photo District News, De Standaard, New York Press, New Age, Kunstforum, King Swing, Pozytyw, and Digital Journalist. She was chief photographer for HardWired's book Burning Man, curator of the 'Art of Burning Man' exhibit at Photo SF, and author of Desert to Dream -- A Decade of Burning Man Photography (reviews in Take Great Pictures, The Onion, SFist, Pulp NZ, SF Gate).
Traub's work has been exhibited in San Francisco at the Arts Commission, Scott Nichols, Rizzoli, ADD Magnum, 111 Minna, Hotel Triton, Borders, Artemis, Aspect, Vesuvios, Vision North, Somarts, and Metreon; in New York at Cooper Union, CBGB's Gallery 313 and the 4th Street Photo Gallery; in Los Angeles at the Museum of Neon Art and Circle Elephant Art Gallery; in Texas at the Longview Museum of Fine Arts and Houston Fotofest, and in Tennessee at MTSU. She has also shown at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, CPA in Carmel, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts in Annapolis, and in Baltimore at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, UMBC Kuhn Library Gallery, Loyola College, School 33 and BAUhouse Art Centers. Overseas, Barbara has exhibited at the International Foto Festival of Knokke-Heist in Belgium, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France, and Galera Uzupis in Vilnius, Lithuania. She teaches at the Academy of Art University, has taught at ASUC Berkeley Art Studio and spoken at venues such as the Commonwealth Club of CA, Blasthaus, Litquake, SF and Berkeley Main Libraries, and Fine Art TV. Her prints are held in collections worldwide, including the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, Museet for Fotokunst in Denmark, Center for Photography in Mumbai, Ransom Center in Texas, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Chrysler Museum in Virginia.
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