Alex Traube

American, born 1946

BiographyAlex Traube was born June 5, 1946 in New York City. He graduated from American University, in 1968, and, in 1970, he received an MA in Photography from Ohio University. During this time, he also was a private student with Minor White and studied at The Center of the Eye, Aspen. In 1993, he earned a Master of Design degree from the Institute of Design, IIT, Chicago.

From 1971-1974, Traube was the associate director at Louisville’s Center for Photographic Studies, where in addition to teaching, he founded a publishing program and the Images & Ideas Lecture Series at the Speed Museum. In 1974, he moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico to pursue his own photography, and in 1977, was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was represented by Cronin Gallery, Houston, and Robert Freidus Gallery, New York.

Traube has had more than 150 solo and group shows of his work. His photographs are in three-dozen museum collections in North America, Europe and Australia. The University of New Mexico Press published a book of his work, Las Vegas New Mexico: A Portrait, in 1983. In 1997, he founded and continues to direct New Mexico CultureNet, an educational nonprofit organization in Santa Fe, where he lives.

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