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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber

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SP is wherever you happen to be photography, shot with any lens or film and done without disturbing the pictures content.

March 2, 2010March 2, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

Walker Evans & Robert Frank 1986

The Robert Frank part of this homage is very easy to figure out, while the Walker Evans half is a little trickier…

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March 2, 2010March 2, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

Columbus Circle 1987

A place where many things went down during the sixties is torn down to make way for a rather ugly building by William Zeckendorf at Columbus Circle…

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March 2, 2010March 2, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

“The Times Are a Changing” NYC 1987

They say change is the only constant and this holds true in New York as much as it does anywhere!

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March 2, 2010March 29, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), Old New York, The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

Shoe Repair 1986

Taxpayers were being raised almost daily during the 1980’s as the New York’s first big real estate boom since the post war days was underway…A lot of small businesses that had been around for a long time were gone…

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March 2, 2010March 29, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), Old New York, The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

“Flats To Let” South Bronx 1987

A sign from the previous century was still visible in this photograph taken when the South Bronx was at its worst…

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March 2, 2010March 2, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

Urban Prisons 1990

At one point New York had become so crime ridden that people actually turned their homes into jails…

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March 2, 2010February 17, 2011 Matt Weber (Street photography), America, The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

Los Angeles 1992

After the Rodney King riots I photographed this burned out storefront and included it in “The Urban Prisoner” as the book’s second picture. All Photos © Matt Weber

March 2, 2010March 29, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), Old New York, The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

New York 1988

The opening picture in “The Urban Prisoner” a monograph by Matt Weber published by Sanctuary Books in 2004

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March 2, 2010May 4, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), 9/11 Related, Old New York, Urban Landscape

“All These Dying Days, I Walk The Ghost Town Used To Be My City” 1985

I never liked the World Trade Center when it stood tall, but ever since the massacre, I miss it all the time!

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March 1, 2010March 17, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), Harlem, signs, The Urban Prisoner, Urban Landscape

Harlem 1986

Harlem has always been a political hotbed, and hopefully will continue to be…Apathy sucks!

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March 1, 2010October 28, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), homeless, Men of New York, signs

Hell’s Kitchen 1989

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February 28, 2010April 2, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), Kiss Kiss, Subway

Subway Lovers 2007

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February 28, 2010February 28, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), OBAMA-Related

Obama Cover 2009

This is the cover of a limited edition book about the election of president Obama.

The eighteen images in the book are shown in their exact sequence here.

Only 200 copies were printed and a few are still Available.

Email for info at: weber1@nyc.rr.com

February 28, 2010December 17, 2011 Matt Weber (Street photography), OBAMA-Related, Subway

Subway Obama News 2008

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February 28, 2010February 28, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), OBAMA-Related

Waiting to Vote for Obama 2008

February 28, 2010March 24, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), Kids & Teens, OBAMA-Related

Teenagers for Obama 2008

February 28, 2010March 1, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), OBAMA-Related, Offspring

Voting for Obama! 2008

February 28, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), Kiss Kiss, OBAMA-Related

Obama Optomism 2008

February 28, 2010February 28, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), Kiss Kiss, OBAMA-Related, Times Square

Obama Victory Kiss 2008

February 28, 2010September 23, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), OBAMA-Related, Times Square, Women of New York

Obama Ecstasy 2008

This has become one of my favorite images for obvious reasons…

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February 28, 2010February 28, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), OBAMA-Related, Times Square

Brotherhood in Victory Times Square 2008

February 28, 2010February 28, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), OBAMA-Related, signs, Times Square

New York Celebrates Obama! 2008

February 28, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), OBAMA-Related, Times Square

Obama Wins! Times Square 2009

February 28, 2010 Matt Weber (Street photography), OBAMA-Related, Times Square, Women of New York

Ecstatic Voters Celebrating Obama becoming President 2008

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