Lunchtime Portraits Capture The Sidewalk Scene Of The Late 70s

Bad things to do on your lunch break include- eating a 2000 calorie meal, smoking half a pack of cigarettes, and sleeping in your car.

Good things to do on your lunch break include- buying a homeless person a meal, squeezing in a bit of cardio in the gym, and taking pictures of people milling about on the sidewalks.

If lunchtime portraits become a social media trend then photographer Charles H. Traub deserves credit as an originator of this idea.

Charles hit the sidewalks of Chicago from 1977 to 1980 capturing portraits of people on their lunch breaks for the aptly titled series “Lunch Time”, which is finally going to be released in book form by Damani Press.

"Lunch Time" gives the viewer a candid look at what people were actually wearing in the 70s, from awful to awfully fabulous, and each image really

See more of these amazing portraits at Dangerous Minds


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