Barbara Traub, an American photographer, was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 2000, she was sent on an exchange program to Florence’s art school for a semester. She intended to paint and draw, but was given a camera at the last moment, establishing her future direction.
Table of Contents
- 1 Career
- 1.1 Burning Man
- 1.2 Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography, Revised Edition
- 1.3 [(Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography)] [Author: Barbara Traub] published on (September, 2011)
- 1.4 Martruska Doll
- 1.5 Annual Review of Computer Science, 1987 by Traub, Joseph F., Grosz, Barbara J., Lampson, Butler W., Nil (1987) Hardcover
- 1.6 DOKKIA Men's Casual Dress Buffalo Plaid Button Up Long Sleeve Flannel Shirt (XX-Large, Black White Buffalo)
- 1.7 Death Kiss [VHS]
- 1.8 Wahl Color Pro Cordless Rechargeable Hair Clipper & Trimmer - Easy Color-Coded Guide Combs - for Men, Women & Children - Model 9649
- 1.9 Haney Foundation Series (50 Book Series)
- 1.10 Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography by Barbara Traub (2006-06-29)
Career
Her early work was influenced primarily by the street photography/decisive moment aesthetics of Robert Frank, Josef Koudelka, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. In 1987 she won first place in the Baltimore Sun Magazine photo contest and held her first exhibition. She traveled worldwide, particularly in Southeast Asia, making informal portraits of people in their surroundings. Soon thereafter, she was introduced to the art of Man Ray whose attention to surrealism, abstraction, and multimedia further influenced her style.
Traub moved from Lake Tahoe to San Francisco in 1994. She visited Lake Tahoe that summer to capture the landscape. Shortly thereafter, she heard about the Black Rock Desert. In 1996 she worked on assignment for Wired magazine’s cover story and again for Wired News in 2001 and 2006. She was the chief photographer of HardWired’s 1997 Burning Man book and also curator of Photo SF 2004’s Art of Burning Man exhibit. Her book Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography, was published in 2006 to favorable reviews. It has been described as “A lovely book, beautifully shot, surreal and random and appropriately odd” and recommended for academic collections of photographic studies. In 2009, Time magazine declared the image on the book’s cover to be an “Iconic Photo of Burning Man”. A revised and expanded edition Desert to Dream: A Dozen Years of Burning Man Photography was released in 2011.
Last update 2021-08-06