Charles H. Traub - Indecent Exposure

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Daniel Cooney Fine Art is exhibiting a collection of vintage color photographs from 1980 – 1982 by Charles H. Traub. It's been a great pleasure working with Charles on a host of projects over the past couple years, including our new book, which makes it so exciting to see Charles' excellent older work getting new, and much deserved exposure. Much like Katy Grannan or a host of other contemporary photographers, whose work Charles' precedes, the series began with an ad that was placed in a local paper calling for nude models.

As Carol Squieres wrote in 1984, "directed only to disrobe and sometimes to stop in mid-motion, the women are variously forthright, awkward, and self-protective, struggling to act natural in a situation that is supremely artificial. Traub manages visually to dissect the myth of the sexually photogenic woman in pictures of naked ladies that are disconcerting, embarrassing and absolutely riveting."

Also be sure to check out Charles current show at Gitterman Gallery, which is on view until Dec. 2.