An Evening in Conversation with Barbara Traub - SF Travel Lectures Series Event

What happens when a travel destination becomes your artistic muse? In 1994 avid traveler and professional photographer Barbara Traub made her first pilgrimage to Burning Man and has been returning annually ever since. Join us on March 30th to hear about her 15-plus years of documenting this community-driven phenomenon through photography.

Barbara Traub is a photographer, multimedia artist and author of Burning Man - Hardwired (https://www.amazon.com/Burning-Man-Hardwired-Barbara-Traub/dp/1888869135/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266562912&sr=1-3) and Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography (https://www.amazon.com/Desert-Dream-Decade-Burning-Photography/dp/1597020036/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266562912&sr=1-1). 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 an annual newspaper photo contest and held her first exhibition. Two years later, she went around the world and spent most of her time in Southeast Asia making informal portraits of people in their surroundings.

Barbara's photography can be seen online at Traubleaux Photography (https://home.earthlink.net/~traubleaux/)

Bio
Barbara Traub’s photography combines surreal elements and decisive moments with a dramatic sense of style….in a way that suggests the poetry of vision.

Her work has been exhibited at venues such as the Arts Commission in San Francisco, Cooper Union in New York, Museum of Neon Art in LA, Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, International Fotofestivals in Belgium and France, and also featured in publications such as Wired’s cover story on Burning Man, wired.com, Mondo 2000, Time, and SF Bay Guardian. She was chief photographer for HardWired’s book Burning Man and author of Desert to Dream: A Decade of Burning Man Photography.

Traub teaches at the Academy of Art University and has lectured and performed at venues such as the Commonwealth Club of California, SF and Berkeley Main Libraries, Blasthaus, Litquake, and Stagewerx Theatre for the premiere of How To Survive The Apocalypse. Her travels to Burning Man and Beyond continue to inspire and inform her work.