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San Francisco at Dawn 1992
Having driven across country over the course of a week or so, there was something akin to reaching the top of a mountain, when I finally reached the Pacific…
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“There are 8,000,000 Million Stories in The Naked City” 1985
I pulled over and took three or four shots and then drove away. I never went back…
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“Life is Too Short to Be Bored” 1987
OK, so I can’t help it…I’m a sucker for irony…
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Whorehouse / Hotel 1987
Yes, even the upper east side of Manhattan had a whorehouse back in the day.
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Pawnshop Harlem 1986
Even some of the pawnshops went out of business during Harlem’s decline during the late twentieth Century…
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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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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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“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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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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“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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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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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
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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Harlem 1986
Harlem has always been a political hotbed, and hopefully will continue to be…Apathy sucks!
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 