From 1977 to 1980, while working at Columbia College Chicago and then the LIGHT Gallery in Midtown, photographer Charles H. Traub would hang out on the street during his lunch hour and ask people if he could take their portrait with his trusty Rolleiflex. During those years Traub took approximately 400 portraits, which are now collected in a new book called Lunchtime, which will be released by Damani Press in late September (you can pre-order it here, though). Following an artistic impulse that would baffle any self-respecting paparazzo, Traub was so intent on capturing the regular citizen in the street that he turned down the chance to shoot a trio of world-class celebrities. “Jackie Kennedy once stopped and said, ‘If you want to take my picture, please be quick,’ and I said no,” says Traub. “Just moments later Yoko Ono and John Lennon walked by and did the same thing. I took neither of their pictures because that wasn’t what I was there to do. I avoided celebrities.” The photographs capture the marvelous originality and individuality that people exhibit just by being themselves. So many of the great iconic photographs from the 1970s are black and white; Traub’s...