Charles H. Traub: Tickety-Boo

Name: Charles H. Traub: Tickety-Boo
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SKU: 9788862087469
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Tickety-Boo presents over two hundred images captured on a smartphone during Charles H. Traub's everyday wanderings over four years. The photos, seemingly ambiguous and out of context, come together to form a pictorial narrative that is both soothing and disquieting. Traub’s eclectic and whimsical approach offers a stream of consciousness response to the mundane, animating ordinary scenes and reflecting the delirious conditions of our contemporary era.
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Charles H. Traub: Tickety-Boo

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This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary photography, visual arts, and those who appreciate thoughtful, unconventional artistic expressions of everyday life.

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Tickety-Boo is a block of a book with more than two hundred images edited from smartphone photographs taken during Charles H. Traub's everyday ramblings over the last four years. The English expression tickety-boo loosely translates to 'Everything is okay, but maybe everything isn't!' Therein lies the enigmatic crux of the images contained in the book.

The smartphone is an ingenious companion that readily makes a photographic response by Traub quick and unobtrusive—a third eye, if you will. A stream of consciousness flows in his response to places, things, and people that catch his eclectic whimsy. His subjects are ambiguous and out of context, yet once organized together within this book, create a kind of pictorial completeness, both soothing and disquieting.

The photographs in each spread vividly amplify each other, leading the viewer to the next sequence. The mundane becomes animated, and in the end, this is a book about the delirious conditions of our time.

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Steven Heller of "The Daily Heller" praises the book for its ambiguous yet complete visual storytelling, noting that it transforms the mundane into animated reflections on our eerie times.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9788862087469

Publisher: Damiani

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 14 October 2021

Country: Italy

Imprint: Damiani

Illustration: 208 Illustrations

Contributors:

Photographs by Charles Traub

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 178.0mm

Weight: 680g

Pages: 208

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Charles H. Traub has been a photographer/educator for over 50 years. His work is represented in major museums and collections all around the world. In 1988, he founded the MFA program of Photography, Video and Related Media at the School of Visual Arts in NYC and still serves as its Chair. Formally, he was a founder of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia Collage, Chicago. Later he directed New York's prestigious Light Gallery, and for over 25 years was president of the Aaron Siskind Foundation. Traub has received numerous awards including the prestigious ICP Infinity Award for his work on here is new york: A Democracy of Photography. He has published 16 books, including 8 monographs of his own. Recent publications include Dolce Via (2014) Lunchtime (2015), the iBook No Perfect Heroes-Photographing U.S. Grant (2016), and Taradiddle (2016).