I saw this guy scraping the posters off of his newsstand and pulled over my taxi. I know the torn poster thing has been done for ages, but in 1987 I thought I was onto something new. Then I saw Walker Evans Minstrel Showbill photos taken 50 years earlier…Oh well.
©Matt Weber




You may wonder how rare a “Coffee Stain Human” is and the answer is, very rare. In twenty five years I’ve only encountered four of them. Do they matter? Do Siskind’s paint splotches matter? Try finding human coffee stains. This one may be the best of all, as he’s a struggling poet, with a cup of coffee in one hand, and his trusty #2 pencil in the other. He’s frantically scribbling haiku before the next rain comes and washes him away…