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“One Man’s Trash”
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For Sale “Rare Coney Island Surfer Shorts” Brand New Size 40 With Zoo York Beer opener!
I will sign these if you like and ship them anywhere in the USA for only $45…Long out of stock!
“Checker Taxi” North Bronx 1987
Yes another Checker Taxi cab for your enjoyment!
Prints are available and are surprisingly affordable in poster sizes…
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Link to Google+
The slideshows at Google+ are very nice…
https://plus.google.com/photos/109447323719942836871/albums/5686009337157995329
“Monster” 1987
I saw this guy scraping the posters off of his newsstand and pulled over my taxi. I know the torn poster thing has been done for ages, but in 1987 I thought I was onto something new. Then I saw Walker Evans Minstrel Showbill photos taken 50 years earlier…Oh well.
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2014 Chevrolet Impala
I haven’t been to the auto show in ten years. I’ve owned five cars in my life and they were all large 8 cylinder American cars. Recently I started thinking that if I ever had the money for another ride, it may have to be a Japanese model…Chevrolet has decided to turn the Impala which has been pretty lame into a much better looking car for the 2014 campaign. A tiny 3.6 liter V-6 reaches 303 HP and what can I say? Maybe I will buy American after all…(Prius fever is hard to shake)
“There’s always next year Pat!”
It was the right after the final game of the ’91 playoffs and the Bulls were about to win their first of six titles with Michael…I hocked my most sacred possessions to get a first row seat. Watching my Knicks eliminated was a drag but watching Michael was worth it (Sort of) The look on Patrick’s face is priceless as Michael is telling him there will be other years for him to win…There never was a way to get past Michael, and when the knicks finally made it to the finals in ’94, Olajuwon and the Rockets crushed Patrick’s dreams once again. Pat Reilly might have noticed that Johnny Starks was a bit off that night, but that’s another story…
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Welcome to my gallery featuring 4 Decades of New York Street Photographs
I want you to enjoy my galleries of street photography without getting lost. There are many different galleries with subjects you can peruse. If you you are interested in Subway photos there are plenty of images which show the NYC subway system in all its "splendor" Maybe you want to
see some pictures of Harlem when it was still Harlem.You can leave comments if you feel so inclined. Most images can be purchased as signed ptints for your collection. "The Urban Prisoner" (Shown on the left) is my first monograph, published in 2004 by Sanctuary Books. Introduction by Ben Lifson. There are still some copies available for purchase. Please inquire about licensing my images for documentary use. Blu-Ray quality files (or 4K) are available for any project you may be working on…Thanks!
Black & White Photos of New York FOR SALE
E-mail Photographer ALL PHOTOS ©MATT WEBER
The Urban Prisoner is now available SIGNED!
*NEW BOOK! “Coney Island-Double Vision”
“More Than the Rainbow” Documentary
New York Times “Street Fights!
REVIEWS: The Urban Prisoner
“The Coffee Stain Poet” 2010
You may wonder how rare a “Coffee Stain Human” is and the answer is, very rare. In twenty five years I’ve only encountered four of them. Do they matter? Do Siskind’s paint splotches matter? Try finding human coffee stains. This one may be the best of all, as he’s a struggling poet, with a cup of coffee in one hand, and his trusty #2 pencil in the other. He’s frantically scribbling haiku before the next rain comes and washes him away…
Street Photography © Matt Weber
“Dog Shit” 2011
All Photos © Matt Weber
Before the Future Came and Bit Me!
In 1977 when I took my girl to see this movie, I thought it sucked. Lame music and stupid white guys from Brooklyn. If you would have told me back then that 34 years later I would consider the film a classic and at 3 am half asleep, I’d take a picture of my TV set this good, with my telephone no less, well I would have had to consult a copy of “Future Shock” to see if this scenario was likely…I never read Toffler’s look into the future, but I guess he must have been right about enough stuff to make it such a bestseller. The telephone wristwatch was something which seemed to be in most futurists vision, but still hasn’t become a hit. Robots may build cars, but Rosie isn’t washing anyone’s dishes yet. That we haven’t been driving electric cars for the past quarter century is a crime…I’d be happy if they’d come up with a cancer drug that worked. That was one thing I was certain would be invented when I saw the Apollo crew land on the moon as a kid…
I still don’t own any records by The Beegees
All Photos © Matt Weber
NEW BOOK! “Coney Island-Double Vision”
A couple of years ago I came up with an idea for a book and thanks to some great work by Mike Peters, this has come to fruition! Most street photographers do their best work alone. Then they sit at their computers trying to figure out ways to promote their work. The solo nature of photography may be necessary most of the time, but I feel that to work with other photographers is a nice change of pace and I’m very pleased with the way this book turned out. I sent Mike 40 some odd images and he was able to search his archives and come up with many of his own pictures which complemented mine just perfectly. I was astonished that I had no changes in mind after looking at his layout…I hope you agree that sometimes TWO chefs can actually make the soup better!
The simple concept was that I make rectangular pictures in Black & White, and Mike makes his beautiful square images in color. Neither of us stage our photographs and the book is a nice view of separate but similar approaches to documenting one of New York’s most important and historic neighborhoods…
The book is a full size hard cover (12″ X 12″) with a dust jacket and is being sold at cost for the time being. If you want to buy a copy and have it signed, I’m fairly certain that we can accommodate you.
Central Park 2002
There’s a new sun Rising up angry in the sky
And there’s a new voice Saying “we’re not afraid to die”
Let the old world make believe It’s blind and deaf and dumb,
but nothing can change the shape of things to come…
All Photos © Matt Weber
“Monument Valley” 1992
I really found landscape photography boring, or I would have done a lot more of it. It’s like fairly obvious when something is beautiful and majestic. Then all one needs to do is back up a few more feet till everything is in the viewfinder, and then take a meter reading of something medium light, or medium dark and then assign “Zone 5” to it. Then hold your breath and release the shutter. One could even use a tripod if one were very serious…I think the first time I saw Marc Riboud’s exhibit at ICP back in the late ’80s I knew the work he had done was much more challenging, and the prints were so much more interesting. I had the good fortune to learn all the technical stuff from Ansel Adam’s how to books, but wanted to try and do what Riboud had done. I never got to the level where Marc or his predecessor Cartier-Bresson lived, but at least I didn’t bore myself to death trying to make pretty things look pretty…
All Photos © Matt Weber
“Dr. Revolt” New Piece For Sale
It is hard to believe that you could buy an original piece like this for so little, but you can. Check out Doctor Revolt’s many fine paintings and ink drawings at
Fotosidan Scandinavian Street Photography Blog
A big thanks to Tobias Ackerman who was kind enough to have “Fotosidan” feature my work. Fotosidan is one of Scandinavia’s best “Street” blogs and it’s a drag that I can’t read the text.
All Photos © Matt Weber
“The 11th Man” by Andrew Gordon
Andrew Gordon, better known as Lester has just published his first novel. Considering he has an incredible sense of humor and has written dozens if not hundreds of songs, I’m interested to read this book. I don’t even read at all these days. The book is based on a photographer who I know pretty well, so that gives me even more incentive to read this book. The icing on the cake is that Andrew selected a picture I took at Coney Island for the cover…
Annoying Orange Spoof
I am sure a lot of your children enjoy watching the Annoying Orange. My daughter has created an even more annoying orange. This is a rich orange who wants to be the next Tiger Woods.
“Strange and Wonderful” Sanctuary Books
As a complete failure at self promotion, it behooves me to occasionally try. Two summers ago I photographed an amazing and eclectic collection of books. Some were very old, others were contemporary, but all were one of a kind. This was also the first major project that I did with a digital camera. Dave Beckerman was kind enough to help me figure out all the modes and other gizmos on a Canon Rebel. The book has been reviewed favorably by the New York Times which is pretty cool. Jed Perl wrote the introduction. This body of photographs are about as far away from Street Photography as I’m likely to stray. So far everybody who’s seen this book has really enjoyed it. There, I’ve tooted my horn a bit…
Buy the book “Strange & Wonderful” here…
Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 