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When Alex, a street portrait photographer known as PortraitGeek, offered to take a photo of Ada, he didn't know how much it would mean to him personally.
Pierce Street Gateway, in collaboration with the University of Lynchburg, will premiere its documentary, "Pierce Street Portraits," at 2 p.m. on April 27.
Photographs today are simulations, amalgams of effects and filters, whereas in the mechanical age (1840s–1960s) people tended to believe photographs were trace records, evidence—an indexical copy of something that was once in front of the camera. In other words, photographs were a disembodied specter. When looking at Charles Traub s photographs, we come to recognize the subject’s direct and causal connection is not to the camera but to the photographer’s eye.