This series demonstrates the joy to be gleaned from a well-timed snapshot 📸
In particular, Traub has always been attracted to capturing life’s small absurdities – the way perspective might make it appear that two people with some distance between them are standing nose to nose, for instance, or how a well-placed book cover sporting a face could appear to merge with its reader. “I had a whole group of pictures which I took in Chicago, and some in New York, that I called ‘the funnies’,” he recalls.
“A taradiddle is a little white lie; a little provocation, maybe; a deception,” the photographer expands on the whimsical word, which also serves as the book’s title. “And these pictures are really about the act of making a photograph, which takes something inevitable out of context. I think John Berger said, ‘A drawing is a translation, a photograph is a quotation’. And I would add to that: a photographa quotation, but it’s always out of context,” he laughs.
The book is an exercise in finding what small but significant coincidences are all around us if we only look and – moreover – in the unparalleled, almost mystical power of the camera and its wielder to document them. In our fake news era, when what is real and what is not feels less certain than ever, Traub’s tongue-in-cheek taradiddles – which, he says intently, are never staged – feel like a pertinent antidote.
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