Photographs from all over the world of the great display of unabashed human delight with the sun. On the beach, the masks come off and allow the inhibitions to wane. Ever since his first publication Beach 1977, Traub has as Aaron Siskind once put it “accomplished a miraculous blend of genial accpetance and critical caricature” of that place where everyone is temporarily free. Nothing is left unexposed and no one seems to care about how they look basking in the public waterside. Whether in Brazil, Italy, wherever, human nature shares in the democracy of the sun. In Traub’s pictures, the body is simply an expression of humanness.