Black & White NYC Street Photography by Matt Weber
While watching the “Bus”people scampering towards their destiny, I was forced to ingest a lifetime’s worth of diesel fumes. I’d beg the drivers to shut off their engines, but they were scared that they wouldn’t start again, and rarely complied with my wishes. Of course I was often sitting on my stoop with a Montecristo in my mouth, so I guess I couldn’t expect much sympathy…
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I use to sit on my stoop and watch my neighbors run to catch the crosstown bus which left every five minutes. I know I’ve said this too many times, but not being one of these clock punching workers is one of the things I am very grateful for…
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I don’t like to ride the bus very much. The subways are much faster and I guess I still feel some sort of nostalgic allegiance to the trains…
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Hey, If I had more of these I’d keep posting them all day long…
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All Photos © Matt Weber
All Photos © Matt Weber
I might as well put the bus pictures in a little group since I don’t have enough of them to start a new category…(OK…I did add the bus pictures to the car category)
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For some reason I find taking someone’s picture on a bus harder than working on the subway…
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This is sort of a bonus image since I just scanned it the other day, 24 years after having taken it! Combing old negatives will hopefully provide many more interesting images down the road…
One year ago I started shooting color on the street for the first time in over twenty years. This is maybe the first picture I took which I liked. The first few days of spring are so uplifting. Flowers bloom, women shed their coats and almost anything seems possible…
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All Photos © Matt Weber
Nothing funny about this picture. In front of a Foot Locker in Times Sq. this poor woman is soaking her tired feet in a putrid puddle, while the the well to do tourists pay her no mind…
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Being a sucker for the tailfin cars of the late 1950s and early 1960s I always try and capture them when they are in traffic. The master of such matters is a photographer named Ray Metzker who took the best picture of these beasts, back in their heyday…
It’s weird to have sired a bonafide “Techie”. Actually it’s weird to have sired anyone at all, but that’s another story. She’s almost as good at troubleshooting as I am, except when she doesn’t get her way with a computer, then look out. I should build a custom “Nerf” computer for her. As I get older and more useless, it will be cool to have her at my beck and call to fix what ever problems OS 11 or OS 12 has…
I could tell you what I think of a man who would insist that his wife or daughter wear something this preposterous to the beach when it’s 90º but I would probably insult someone who believes that this must be done in the name of an invisible entity that is all powerful, yet at the same time, all loving…
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This is my daughter after she broke a carton of eggs. One day she will break a lot more than eggs…
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All Photos © Matt Weber
Why must I be a teenager in love?
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Some of them are beyond saving. They must be touched by humans almost at birth. It hurts, but you do what you can for those who want to be loved and watch helplessly while others whither…
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All Photos © Matt Weber
Ancient Pre-War backboard in an abandoned Long Island summer camp…
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One of the things I liked about shooting in New York twenty years ago was, that the city was full of unrestored buildings. The old details were starting to show abundant wear and tear, but they were still completely authentic. Today, due to the real estate boom of the ’80s & ’90s most everything has been replaced. The new aluminum door from Home Depot or Anderson windows are a good thing as far as saving energy is concerned, but there was something nice about the fact that a hundred year old door had been opened and closed so many times. Old buildings may not have ghosts in them, but that old door may have been held open by a young James Cagney visiting a girl back in 1922 or…
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Most people my age can remember going to one of these automats with their parents or grandparents. The pies were famous for being edible, where as their sandwiches sucked. There were revolving tables inside the machines which were a lot of fun for a kid to operate. Back in the 1920’s when H & H restaurants were popping up all over the city, many of the treats were probably just 5¢…
I always have to stop from waxing poetic about the good old days, for fear of sounding like Glen Beck (The schmuck on CNN)
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 