For decades this smaller version sat on top of a building on West 64th Street near Lincoln center…
North of Times Square 2015
I got lucky when the whole Avenue opened up for a second…
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10th Ave. 1989
Still trying to rescan ALL of the plates from my book and I had no idea that this project would be so time consuming…
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Baby 2003 (New Scan)
This picture reminds me of a very famous photographer when he was very young…
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“The Attack on West 55th Street” Triptych 1988
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Self Portrait 1988
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“New Home for the Urban Prisoner” 1989
I don’t remember where this awful looking building is, but I assume it was meant to incarcerate the new exploding population of crack-Heads that were making NYC a real drag back in ’89…
If I am wrong and this is a condo with slits for windows, then I wasn’t keeping up with the latest real estate trends…
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“Dour Selfie” 2013
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DO 2003
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“The Bubble Boy” (New Scan) 1999
I took this picture on a day when it hit 100º and the Tri-X in my Leica actually started to melt or reticulate from the heat. I almost burned my hand when I touched the camera and I guess the film was somehow damaged. Maybe I just fucked up the development, but I prefer thinking that the heatwave had its way with my film…
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“High Hairs” 1990 (New Scan)
I always thought and of course I could be wrong, that the women were talking about men, while the men, were just talking about money…
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“The Complete Budweiser Experience” 1988
This was just one of those moments where the stuff that you come across is so much better than anything you might have imagined you’d find as you left your house that morning!
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Welcome to my gallery featuring 4 Decades of New York Street Photographs
I want you to enjoy my galleries of street photography without getting lost. There are many different galleries with subjects you can peruse. If you you are interested in Subway photos there are plenty of images which show the NYC subway system in all its "splendor" Maybe you want to
see some pictures of Harlem when it was still Harlem.You can leave comments if you feel so inclined. Most images can be purchased as signed ptints for your collection. "The Urban Prisoner" (Shown on the left) is my first monograph, published in 2004 by Sanctuary Books. Introduction by Ben Lifson. There are still some copies available for purchase. Please inquire about licensing my images for documentary use. Blu-Ray quality files (or 4K) are available for any project you may be working on…Thanks!
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A big thanks to Tobias Ackerman who was kind enough to have “Fotosidan” feature my work. Fotosidan is one of Scandinavia’s best “Street” blogs and it’s a drag that I can’t read the text.
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Motorcycle 1988
Finally, a new scan of an old favorite. I think that this image as scanned would fit on a sheet of 20×24″ paper very nicely. Maybe I should try and do that contrived bullshit, and print only five or ten of them and make a few shekels for a change…Buy one today before Gagosian buys out the entire run!
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September 11th 2001
It’s hard to believe that it’s been over ten years since the massacre. I have been told that I will be remembered for this photo. I hope that’s not true…
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“Perfect Kiss” 2003
Andre Kertesz the great Hungarian photographer once said he waited his whole life to take a picture of a pigeon flying in front of a tenement. (It was an amazing photo) I felt that way about this image. I could easily have gone a hundred years without being this lucky again…
This picture is NOT in my book, “The Urban Prisoner” but is used to decorate the back of the dust jacket. I have a few copies of the book which I will sell to anyone interested for $60 signed or inscribed. I will pay for the shipping as well. Paypal me and the book will appear in just three days. You can’t beat that with a stick! (A silly saying that I never liked)
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“The Attack on West 55th Street” 1988
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Tuesday September 11th 2001
The few people who have seen this picture seem to like it. I still feel very conflicted posting these because the people out there (in cyberspace) who lost friends or family will never fail to be saddened by these images. Again, I’m sorry if I have upset anyone…
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September 11th 2001
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September 11th 2001 10:28 AM
I sincerely apologize if this picture causes any pain to anyone, but I have decided to post the photos I took that morning and I realize that they can be very depressing. There is a need for discussion about what lead to the massacre and everything which happened as a result of the attacks that day. I am probably not capable of neutral and sensible debate, so please don’t expect me to see the Saudi point of view. I realize that we had military bases in Saudi Arabia and that there is a sacred black cube there which may contain Allah himself, but I never want 3,000 people to be incinerated, no matter who they are…
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NYC 1988
One of my favorite images from “The Urban Prisoner”
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 