An eclectic compilation of smart-phone snapshots from the past four years of the photographer's daily adventures.
Tickety-Boo is a block of a book with more than two hundred images edited from smart-phone photographs taken during Charles H. Traub's everyday ramblings over the last four years. The English expression tickety-boo loosely translates "Everything is okay, but maybe everything isn't!" Therein lies the enigmatic crux of the images contained in the book. The smart-phone is an ingenious companion that readily makes a photographic response by Traub quick and unobtrusive—a third eye, if you will. A stream of consciousness flows in his response to places, things, and people that catch his eclectic whimsy. His subjects are ambiguous and out of context, yet once organized together within this book, create a kind of pictorial completeness, both soothing and disquieting. The photographs in each spread vividly amplify each other leading the viewer to the next sequence. The mundane becomes animated, and in the end, this is a book about the delirious conditions of our time.
Charles H. Traub (born 1945 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American photographer and educator, known for his ironic real world witness color photography. His works are in the collection of major museums worldwide. Traub is Chair of the MFA Photography, Video, and Related Media department at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and President of the Aaron Siskind Foundation.
