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East 9th Street 1986
This man was often seen panhandling on 9th St. just east of 3d Ave. He never said a word…©Matt Weber
“Harlem Lookout” 1987
I took this picture a few months before taking one of my all time favorites, this one and the one below.
This image and most others can be licensed for documentary use and is also available as a signed print…
©Matt Weber
“Alphabet City” 1986
This image and most others can be licensed for documentary use and is also available as a signed print…
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Jesus
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East Harlem 1988
A rather famous display of stuffed animals in an abandoned building uptown…
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“A Carny comes to Coney” 2014
The kid on the right said he was a carny from Texas…
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Eric Smith 1950-2014 R.I.P.
There is a very touching article on how some of the people who knew Eric paid to have him buried properly in Harlem…
©Matt Weber 1995
COLUMBUS CIRCLE 1988
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Rachel
I met Rachel on my corner in 1999 and she was just a lost girl “Seeking a Little Kindness”. I gave her a copy of Howl since she said she liked poetry. I bumped into her again six years later and she had grown up a bit and life on the street was starting to show. Still seeking kindness she appeared on the cover of a very powerful photo book a couple of years later, much to my surprise. I saw her again a few years ago with her hair bleached platinum blonde and didn’t take another picture.
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Self Titled 1990
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Urban Blight 1988
There were quite a few welfare hotels around Herald and Greeley Square back in the ’80s and this pictures is one of my better views of what the welfare kids did with their “spare time”
This image and most others can be licensed for documentary use and is also available as a signed print…
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Untitled 2014
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“A Drinking Life”
Pete Hamill’s book “A Drinking Life” describes old New York’s drinking culture as well as any book ever could…
©Matt Weber 2014
42d Street 2014
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East 9th Street 1988
If you were in the vicinity of 9th St & 3d Ave. back in the late 1980’s you may remember this fellow who was usually panhandling on the east side of third Ave…
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Homeless 2014
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TRAGEDY 1989
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Madison Ave. 1988
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“Cigar Aficionado” 1989
I am rescanning all the plates in my book, The Urban Prisoner for a digital version which will be available for purchase on Ipads…
©Matt Weber
“Vital Signs” L.E.S. 1989
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“Trolley Entrance Queensboro Bridge” 1985
There was a group of homeless fellows living on the 59th Street bridge thirty years ago, and the trolley entrance was yet to be removed for reasons unknown to me…
©Matt Weber
Bowery-Cropped
There is a focal point to almost every picture and I think the way her body curves around his face as he looks up at her is it…
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 