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Author Profiles


Barbara Traub


Barbara Traub is a photographer and multimedia artist, whose artwork has exhibited worldwide, such as at the San Francisco at the Arts Commission, Xerox PARC, Cooper Union in New York, the Museum of Neon Art in Los Angeles, Houston Fotofest, Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, and the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute.

The obscure reference in a Nevada guide book to Bruno's homemade ravioli in the tiny town of Gerlach first lured Barbara to the nearby hot springs of Black Rock Desert in 1994. Returning to her new home in San Francisco, she came across a flyer for Burning Man happening in the same desert and went back there to photograph it three weeks later...and subsequently for the following nine years.

Her photography of Burning Man has appeared in publications such as Wired, Spiegel Online, Photo District News, San Francisco Chronicle, and New Age. Chief photographer for HardWired's book Burning Man, she curated the 2004 "Art of Burning Man" at Photo SF. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, she resides in San Francisco, California.



Reviews


"Barbara Traub, who is best known as the photographer who created some of the most recognizable images of Burning Man"
- Laughing Squid

"The images capture what this event is about more than words can...it's avant-garde at its best."
- artFUTURE

"Barbara Traub captures an expansive desert of everything but normality where monstrous beings of all shapes, colors and sizes congregate each year with contraptions that challenge everyday familiarity."
- Sidelines Online


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Desert to Dream Pretty in Pink
Riddle Host
HMS Love Carthedral
Infinity Belgian Waffle



Reviews


"The images capture what this event is about more than words can... it's avant-garde at its best."
-artfuture.com

"Barbara Traub has been taking photos of the scene for years, considering her role part of the performance. The vivid photos bear witness to the creativity and freedom expressed by participant. This book tells many thousands of words' worth of stories."
- MocoLoco

"Although finding the surreal at Burning Man may be as easy as finding materialism in Las Vegas, Traub seems to have an affinity for the unusual and the sublime."
-Micro Publishing News