Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Coney Island, Kiss Kiss

Coney Island 2010

I don’t know if these buildings are still standing, but Joe Sitt is in the process of tearing them down. He will replace them with one story taxpayers. When the outcry is sufficient, he will probably be paid handsomely to turn the properties over to other developers. This is what he has always done. Business is business, and to hell with history. Coney Islands last handful of nineteenth century buildings will make way for a Duane Reade or Walgreens! I have been going to Coney Island since ’61 and It hurts that one rich scumbag can do this and that our billionaire mayor will twiddle his thumbs and let him get away this…

 

I should create a category called “Nauseating” just for this picture…

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Coney Island

Coney Island 2010

I saw the negative and it reminded me of someone else’s picture. Maybe at this point in time, 99% of what I shoot is bound to look familiar. Even then, each image is a new document or “piece of art” despite being almost an exact replica of another artist’s efforts. Even worse, many of the pictures I take are doppelgangers of my own…

That said, I like this image regardless of all the nonsense I just sputtered.

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Coney Island

Coney Island 2010

Black & white looks pretty good when included in a color image…I guess it’s harder to include some color in a black & white photo without cheating…Soon Adobe will come out with a program eliminating the need for photography. It will plug into a database of several trillion stock photos and create whatever you ask it to…Seriously, I was thrilled to find four people with B & W in this image. Some would say why bother when you could reassemble four people from separate pictures in Photoshop. This type of work is apparently called “Post Modern Street Photography” and is considered a fresh new approach to an old worn out type of photography. I don’t agree, but I’m usually way too nostalgic for the past and I guess I’m missing the boat again…

Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Coney Island, Kids & Teens, Women of New York

“I wanna be like Mike”

Mike Peters has just wrapped up a digital presentation of his work called “The Dream” It will hopefully find a publisher soon. He hopes to print four narrow books and then put them into a slipcase. That would be fantastic! I have decided to crop my work from now on as a tribute to Mike, who lugs his Hasselblad around everywhere and makes me wish that I had one too. I remember what it feels like to compose an image with a larger camera and then attain critical focus. You just sense the potential of the image in a different way than with 35 mm. Of course I’m sort of kidding here, but another thing which Mike has, that I covet is…Four cars! I just want one…

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