Matt Weber (Street photography), Women of New York

Diamonds are NOT your best friend!

With all the focus on Occupy Wall Street these days, I felt like pointing out that there is a block in midtown where the people are even greedier if you can believe that. On West 47th Street I always get a very weird and creepy feeling as I walk down the block. I feel like all the men trying to usher me into their little shops are fucking creatures, barely human. Money has left them so stripped of any other quality worth mentioning. I see no saving grace for any of the merchants who pander to people in love, and then sell them shiny little pebbles as a symbol of true love. I have always hated the whole concept of diamonds and wondered how they have managed to mesmerize so many generations of women into craving them…

I stopped for a second and then split, nausea building up inside me. I felt the same way in Vegas, and barely spent an hour there…

©Matt Weber

Matt Weber (Street photography), Old New York, Urban Wildlife

BLIND 1985

©Matt Weber

Some dog photos become iconic because thery are published over and over again. Look at Daido’s stray dog. That dog has gotten almost as much ink as Madonna…Then there’s Frank’s blind Pomeranian which was seen on the Rolling Stone’s “Exile on Main Street” and that was enough to make the sad little creature a tiny part of modern culture. As far as which dog is king of the hill…No one can touch Koudelka’s Great Dane whirling in the snow…Totally in a class by its self…