{"id":3179,"date":"2021-10-09T10:41:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T08:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/09\/a-lemon-at-the-car-dealership-charles-traubs-best-phone-picture\/"},"modified":"2021-10-09T10:41:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T08:41:18","slug":"a-lemon-at-the-car-dealership-charles-traubs-best-phone-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/09\/a-lemon-at-the-car-dealership-charles-traubs-best-phone-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"A lemon at the car dealership: Charles Traub\u2019s best phone picture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018In our vernacular, a lemon is something that\u2019s not right. We have a lot of lemons around\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In Miami, Florida, a few years ago, Charles H Traub was walking past the packed lot of a car dealership when he saw this outsized lemon parked in a vacant spot. \u201cIn our vernacular, as I suppose in yours, a lemon is something that\u2019s not right.\u201d What was no doubt a bit of Vegas-style pop art advertising seemed to Traub heavy with metaphoric potential. As he puts it mildly: \u201cWe have a lot of lemons around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration in January 2017, Traub has been drawn to such incongruent images. The resulting series, <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklynrail.org\/events\/2021\/08\/31\/tickety-book-charles-h-traub\/\" title=\"\">Tickety-Boo<\/a> (published by Damiani), is a visual stream of consciousness that he could only have shot on his phone. \u201cBecause you can respond anywhere, and everywhere. And you can do so without looking like a photographer. It frees you from, as we say in New York, schlepping a lot of equipment. People just think you\u2019re on your phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2021\/oct\/09\/a-lemon-at-the-car-dealership-charles-traubs-best-phone-picture\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bde25b4dd291bc04752e8a0c28efcf298811b2bb\/0_146_2430_1458\/master\/2430.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9df62643e436e1b45494228f0d69ba4b\" title=\"A lemon at the car dealership: Charles Traub\u2019s best phone picture\" \/>\u2018In our vernacular, a lemon is something that\u2019s not right. We have a lot of lemons around\u2019<br \/>\nIn Miami, Florida, a few years ago, Charles H Traub was walking past the packed lot of a car dealership when he saw this outsized lemon parked in a vacant spot. \u201cIn our vernacular, as I suppose in yours, a lemon is something that\u2019s not right.\u201d What was no doubt a bit of Vegas-style pop art advertising seemed to Traub heavy with metaphoric potential. As he puts it mildly: \u201cWe have a lot of lemons around.\u201d<br \/>\nSince Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration in January 2017, Traub has been drawn to such incongruent images. The resulting series, Tickety-Boo (published by Damiani), is a visual stream of consciousness that he could only have shot on his phone. \u201cBecause you can respond anywhere, and everywhere. And you can do so without looking like a photographer. It frees you from, as we say in New York, schlepping a lot of equipment. People just think you\u2019re on your phone.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018In our vernacular, a lemon is something that\u2019s not right. We have a lot of lemons around\u2019 In Miami, Florida, a few years ago, Charles H Traub was walking past the packed lot of a car dealership when he saw this outsized lemon parked in a vacant spot. \u201cIn our vernacular, as I suppose in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/09\/a-lemon-at-the-car-dealership-charles-traubs-best-phone-picture\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A lemon at the car dealership: Charles Traub\u2019s best phone picture<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}