Charles traub

The photographer shoots the streets of New York at lunchtime

The New Yorker on Instagram: "Between 1977 and 1980, the photographer Charles H. Traub would take to the streets during the midday bustle, among the choicest hours for people-watching in a big city. See more of his lunchtime portraits of New Yorkers at the link in our bio."

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Bad things to do on your lunch break include- eating a 2000 calorie meal, smoking half a pack of cigarettes, and sleeping in your car.Good things to do on your lunch break include- buying a homeless person a meal, squeezing in a bit of cardio in the gym, and taking pictures of people milling about on the sidewalks.If lunchtime portraits become a social media trend then photographer Charles H. Traub deserves credit as an originator of this idea.Charles hit the sidewalks of Chicago from 1977…

Charles H. Traub passed his lunchtimes in the late '70s taking portraits with a Rolleiflex.

Although it seems implausible now, there was a time when people took a lunch break. In the late 1970s, while working at Columbia College in Chicago,...

These colorful images of New Yorkers in the 1970s are up close and beautiful.

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The 80s are a time of fun, excess, luxury and optimism. The 1980s top the seemingly unlimited economical growth of Italy and mark the appare...