Charles Traub's Advice for Young Photographers

Last Tuesday night I was privileged to be part of a panel
discussion about photography at the Aperture Foundation in New York. The
nominal topic of the discussion was supposed to have been the confluence of art
and commerce, but everybody really wanted to talk about strategies for young
photographers to get started in the field. No one had better advice than our
panel leader, Charles Traub (left), a talented photographer whose day job is being
chairman of the School of Visual Arts’s photography MFA program. His closing
remarks for the evening were drawn from his 2006 book “The Education of a
Photographer" (Allworth Press, $19.95). They were so clever, and so based in the
modern reality of photography, at least as seen by the chairman of a major
photography program, that I thought I would print them here.