An Angler's Album: Fishing
in Photography and Literature
by Charles H. Traub, with introduction by
Charles Kuralt, New York: Rizzoli, 1990
"The American Fly Fisher," Summer 1991:
Writer and photographer are both engaged in contriving--angling--to make an image probable through artifice. Trying to take advantage of the synergism that results from combining writing, photography and fishing, Traub has made artful juxtapositions. The pairings of the quotations and photographs are not necessarily illustrative of one another but are intended to create an unexpected view of angling and its aspects. As a pictorial of modern fishing and photography, the book has scholarly, historical and sociological interest. By daring to include photographs from public fishing areas in America--complete with beer guts, bait buckets and poor fitting bikinisÑalong with some of the most valuable fishing photography of the last century; this book provides a refreshing change from the standard images.
Adapted from a review by Tom Rosenbauer.