All Photos © Matt Weber
February 28, 2011
February 23, 2011
Before the Future Came and Bit Me!
In 1977 when I took my girl to see this movie, I thought it sucked. Lame music and stupid white guys from Brooklyn. If you would have told me back then that 34 years later I would consider the film a classic and at 3 am half asleep, I’d take a picture of my TV set this good, with my telephone no less, well I would have had to consult a copy of “Future Shock” to see if this scenario was likely…I never read Toffler’s look into the future, but I guess he must have been right about enough stuff to make it such a bestseller. The telephone wristwatch was something which seemed to be in most futurists vision, but still hasn’t become a hit. Robots may build cars, but Rosie isn’t washing anyone’s dishes yet. That we haven’t been driving electric cars for the past quarter century is a crime…I’d be happy if they’d come up with a cancer drug that worked. That was one thing I was certain would be invented when I saw the Apollo crew land on the moon as a kid…
I still don’t own any records by The Beegees
All Photos © Matt Weber
February 14, 2011
NEW BOOK! “Coney Island-Double Vision”
A couple of years ago I came up with an idea for a book and thanks to some great work by Mike Peters, this has come to fruition! Most street photographers do their best work alone. Then they sit at their computers trying to figure out ways to promote their work. The solo nature of photography may be necessary most of the time, but I feel that to work with other photographers is a nice change of pace and I’m very pleased with the way this book turned out. I sent Mike 40 some odd images and he was able to search his archives and come up with many of his own pictures which complemented mine just perfectly. I was astonished that I had no changes in mind after looking at his layout…I hope you agree that sometimes TWO chefs can actually make the soup better!
The simple concept was that I make rectangular pictures in Black & White, and Mike makes his beautiful square images in color. Neither of us stage our photographs and the book is a nice view of separate but similar approaches to documenting one of New York’s most important and historic neighborhoods…
The book is a full size hard cover (12″ X 12″) with a dust jacket and is being sold at cost for the time being. If you want to buy a copy and have it signed, I’m fairly certain that we can accommodate you.
February 2, 2011
Central Park 2002
There’s a new sun Rising up angry in the sky
And there’s a new voice Saying “we’re not afraid to die”
Let the old world make believe It’s blind and deaf and dumb,
but nothing can change the shape of things to come…
All Photos © Matt Weber
January 30, 2011
“Monument Valley” 1992
I really found landscape photography boring, or I would have done a lot more of it. It’s like fairly obvious when something is beautiful and majestic. Then all one needs to do is back up a few more feet till everything is in the viewfinder, and then take a meter reading of something medium light, or medium dark and then assign “Zone 5″ to it. Then hold your breath and release the shutter. One could even use a tripod if one were very serious…I think the first time I saw Marc Riboud’s exhibit at ICP back in the late ’80s I knew the work he had done was much more challenging, and the prints were so much more interesting. I had the good fortune to learn all the technical stuff from Ansel Adam’s how to books, but wanted to try and do what Riboud had done. I never got to the level where Marc or his predecessor Cartier-Bresson lived, but at least I didn’t bore myself to death trying to make pretty things look pretty…
All Photos © Matt Weber
January 28, 2011
January 3, 2011
“Dr. Revolt” New Piece For Sale
It is hard to believe that you could buy an original piece like this for so little, but you can. Check out Doctor Revolt’s many fine paintings and ink drawings at
Fotosidan Scandinavian Street Photography Blog
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.
All Photos © Matt Weber
