Charles H. Traub’s Dolce Via is an intimate portrait of Italy during the early 1980s. Coupling the Plaubel Makina 67 with Kodak negative film, Traub vibrantly witnesses the heedless pleasure of life during this period. Fav image – page 23, depicts two [presumable] siblings dressed uniformly in red, cutting like silhouettes as they devour ice cream on the waters edge.
This 112 page casebound edition consists of 85 colour photographs, a foreword by esteemed art critic Max Kozloff and “Dialogue of the Street Photographer and His Muse” by scholar and poet Luigi Ballerini. Stock is scarcely limited to the first edition, with several used copies asking upward of $600 on Amazon.
It’s compendiums like this which indemnify my generation for being born too late. My only gripe — the sequencing is plainly too literal, pairing like subjects and compositions as if it were a game of snap.
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