Today’s your last chance to do a truly civic feel-good thing–bid in a silent auction on a photo or print to help support the Free Library’s Prints and Pictures Collection.
Our series sponsor is Fleisher Art Memorial. Daniel Traub’s photographs of overgrown lots in North Philadelphia where rowhouses once stood have a mournful feel. In Traub’s photos, on view at the Print Center until March 5, indomitable nature grows up tall where people once lived. But the works are not so much about the man-nature struggle in the built environment. They’re more about entropy and the way things are, the rub of time and place. Traub spent the last nine years in China where he observed the building boom of gated communities rising next to shanty towns. He talked with ...
Philadelphia-born artist Daniel Traub has been living and working in China for the last nine years. But he’s back now and the son of artist/activist Lily Yeh and architect/preservationist David Traub has a show of new urban landscape photographs currently at the Print Center. We talked with him recently about his work and his experience in China. Below is a short sample from the interview. Catch the full episode on Monday. 27-second Daniel Traub sample
Lots, an exhibition of Daniel Traub’s color photography now at The Print Center, explores intersections of devastation and beauty found in abandoned lots throughout Philadelphia.
Philadelphia has just gained another place to view great photography. The new Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (PPAC) at the Crane Arts Center is showing juried works by 21 young artists in the exhibit Next: Emerging Philadelphia Photographers.