Matt Weber (Street photography), Graffiti-NYC Tags, Men of New York, Portraits

Henry Chalfant & Joe-136 (Print Scan)

henry-chalfant-matt-weberToday is Henry Chalfant’s birthday. I took this picture twenty years ago on my old block. He is standing in front of the building which Robert Duvall use to live in. The thing is, even though Henry is the foremost expert on NYC grafitti, his expertise really started a few years after I had stopped writing. He was nice enough to pose next to this Joe-136 tag which meant a lot more to me, than it did to him! The tag was only visible after a hard long rain. Then it would appear magically like a Polaroid photo to remind me of 1971 when I would keep track of what was being written on those subway walls and tenement halls…

Matt Weber "New New York", (Street photography), signs, Times Square, Women of New York

“Taliban Attacks U.S.”

TimesSq-TALIBAN-matt-weberI saw the showgirl in bodypaint and then saw Kenny Powers the redneck asshole (Only on HBO) throwing around what I assumed were $100 bills on a giant billboard. A silly image showing America in some of its more over the top ways. I did not see the zipper and its message about the Taliban. The irony is that what I had just photographed were exactly the type of things which would make the Taliban want to attack us…

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