February 2011 – Page 2 – Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber

February 10, 2011February 10, 2011 Matt Weber (Street photography), Offspring

Public School 166

My daughter’s High-Fiving her teacher and this is the way it’s always been. She has loved every single teacher she’s had since kindergarten. Not bad for a system that’s always on the verge of falling apart…

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February 9, 2011December 17, 2011 Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Men of New York, Subway

Subway “Celebration!” 2010

A bunch of Dominicans celebrate their Dominican heritage, while the woman in the foreground seems a tad subdued. Could her black eye also be a mood suppressor?

February 8, 2011February 8, 2011 Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Coney Island, Subway, Women of New York

Coney Island 2010

February 7, 2011February 7, 2011 Matt Weber (Street photography), Fights & Playfights, Kids & Teens

“Hey Photograph This!” 2011

These kids go to the Mickey Mantle school which is for kids that get left behind. They use to call these type of learning institutions, 600 Schools. Who knows, they might be fourth or fifth graders, and they got me real good. They began circling me and as I kept dodging snowball after snowball, one of them snuck up behind me and when I turned, he got me in the face with a cinder block sized chunk of icy snow…My Leica was completely covered as well and I had to retreat in defeat with just a few frames to console myself with…

February 5, 2011February 5, 2011 Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Coney Island, Kids & Teens

Coney Island 2010

February 4, 2011March 3, 2011 Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Offspring, Old New York

“The Fuller Building” 2010

The Fuller building on east 57th Street is very beautiful. Even the elevators are amazing. Here I’m photographing my kid after seeing the Peter Sekaer exhibit at Howard Greenberg’s gallery. Sekaer was a good friend of Walker Evans and traveled with Evans down south as Walker made many of his signature images. Meanwhile Sekaer was busy taking pictures which at times were virtually identical, and at other times completely different than Evans. The monograph on Sekaer was very overdue and is a good book to say the least. I usually lament the books that come out a few years after a photographer dies, but in this case it’s fucking ridiculous…Peter Sekaer died in 1950 and his monograph was published in 2010!

Better late than never…

February 2, 2011February 13, 2017 Matt Weber (Street photography), PROTESTS, Uncategorized

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…

February 1, 2011February 1, 2011 Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Times Square, Women of New York

“99%”

I can’t stand when I lose my concentration! How could I be so unprofessional? The title is because I didn’t capture her completely. Are her toes that important? Not really, but it still bothers me…