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“Todd Webb 1946” Harlem 1986
I was looking through one of my many photo-books and I noticed that Todd Webb’s classic picture of a Pierce Arrow automobile looked very familiar. Exactly forty years after he took this splendid picture, I drove up in my taxi and snapped a very similar image one morning. The four decades did take their toll on the fire escape and the doors were replaced with plainer ones, but the theater retained its style as best it could…
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Public Lunch Harlem 1988
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“Harlem Princess” 1988
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“Urban Chaos” Harlem 1985 (New Scan)
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“Ironwork” Harlem 1985
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“Lottering on Stopp” Harlem 1988
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“Little Brother” Harlem 1987
I usually save my favorite picture of the year for the last day, but this year I’m posting one of the many older images I found, as I combed my entire archive looking for missed gems. As I get older I find that the happier pictures bring me much more satisfaction than the darker ones…
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“Harlem 25 Years Ago”
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“Reason to be Cheerful” Harlem 1985
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Self-Caddy-Snow-Harlem-1988
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“Sugar Hill” Harlem 1985
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“Makeshift Playground” Harlem 1987
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“The Last of its Kind” Harlem 1985
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Harlem Wall 1988
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“Higher Goals” DVD Case
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“Power at Last…Forever!” Harlem 1986
The Starlight Bar must have had a few interesting moments in it over the years…
Scroll down for details, and yes I can sell you a very nice print of this image.
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“Power at Last…Forever!” (Details) Harlem 1986
Its the little “See Television Here” stencil that I really wanted to show you…
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“Social Security” Harlem 1986
Harlem was still Harlem and the “47%” came here.
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“By Any Means Necessary” Harlem 1987 (New Scan)
I remember being so excited when I took this torn poster shot of Malcolm X. Wow, I was into something cool and cutting edge…Shortly thereafter I bought a copy Walker Evans American photographs and saw his “Minstrel Showbill” picture from 50 years earlier, and got bitchslapped back to reality…
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Zoo York Weber T-Shirts for Fall 2012
I have five new shirts coming out by Zoo York this fall and unfortunately they can only be bought online unless you happen to be in Europe…This is the first one to surface.
“U.S. Mail” Harlem 1988
I look through my early negatives and wish I had better skill sometimes, but even if I didn’t know how to photograph something back then, I knew what to photograph…
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“Homeless in Harlem” 1989
Hard times back then, but all of a sudden the homeless population has surged and is approaching the levels I remember seeing when I drove a taxi in the 1980s…
Harlem December 7th 1986
New scan of an older image which I had dated to the day…
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 