would spend his lunchbreak with his camera, wandering around the streets surrounding New York's Light Gallery and taking pictures of the people he felt drawn to. During a time long before street style became mainstream and before the world had mastered the graceful art of the sidewalk pose, Traub captured a disarmingly intimate insight into the characters he captured on his Rolliflex.
"The point is, everybody wants to be photographed. Everybody wants to be treated that way" – Charles H. Traub "All these idiots across the street are crawling all over a minor movie star, but if you just stay in one place long enough, everybody will pass you by. I said to her, ‘I’m not here for that purpose’ – I really wasn’t, I really didn’t want to do celebrities. She thanked me and she walked on, and I’m laughing at myself like, ‘you idiot, you could have photographed the most famous woman in the world in the same way you're photographing everyone else.