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Charles H. Traub

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    • Looking Good
    • 42nd Street
    • Vacant
    • Tickety-Boo
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    • Dolce Via
    • Salad Days
    • Cajun Document
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“ Sexuality, profit and aesthetics are the major ingredients of almost every photograph of a nude woman. Charles Traub disrupts that holy triad with his nude and seminude female figure studies. His models arrive via the ads he places in the “adult entertainment” section of a local paper, and, other fantasies aside, his pictures are about the way these average, mainly white women undress in front of a stranger with a camera. 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. “ | Carol Squires, Vanity Fair 1984