SP is wherever you happen to be photography, shot with any lens or film and done without disturbing the pictures content.
This is one of those pictures which didn’t make the book, but it still reminds me of how dangerous Central Park was twenty some odd years ago. These toddlers were running towards the woods uptown where the famous jogger attack took place. Ah, the good old days…
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This was a large display of art with the message to the kids of Harlem, that you should have ‘Higher Goals” than the NBA…because that’s never gonna happen, you can’t be like Mike…so stay in school!
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It was morning in Harlem on Easter Sunday and look at the suit which “Little Man” was wearing!
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Cutting class and going down to “The Deuce” was a rite of passage for several generations of kids…I guess it’s better now since Times Sq. has been cleaned up, but there are some who would disagree…
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Back in 1965 it could have been me on the left. Might have been my friend Albert Pickett on the right…
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The Quadruple Yoking may be one of the worst titles of all time, but it will always be one of my favorite pictures…
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I was standing on my stoop with a big Pentax 6×7 when I saw this guy crossing the street. Bang the shutter clapped loudly and at that exact moment, he spun halfway around suddenly as if he’d been shot!
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Two men fighting in the middle of West 86th St…
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In case you were wondering, the cat won…
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Too much liquor. One guy telling the other “You got to get it together!”
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This was the first Starbucks on the upper west side and they actually closed a couple of years ago, because a bank outbid them for their lease! I remember that I was mired in one of the worst creative slumps of my life and probably hadn’t taken a picture that I really liked in well over a year. When this one came out of the tray, I recall being extremely relieved…
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I rarely think about which of my pictures I like the most, but if I did, I’m pretty sure this picture would be in my top ten. It was well after midnight and this poor guy (or woman) was just trying to stay warm on a bitter February night…
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Waiting for a red light to change almost a quarter of a century ago, I snapped a frame which couldn’t have been much better…
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For different reasons, people have always loved this picture…
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I forget the artist’s name but he had adorned quite a few walls in the East village with his unique style murals…
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A friend who knows a lot more about photography as an art than I do, once told me “This is the image that you’ll be remembered for” Like anyone else who’s not dead or in a wheelchair, I’d like to think that I may still have something else up my sleeve. I’m not saying that having a signature image is without any value. It could be nice to win a Pulitzer and be famous for a week, but there have been those photographers known for that one killer shot, and then many others known for their brilliant careers…Which one would you like to be?
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When it rains, it pours! I think that this was the hardest rain I ever found myself in. If you look really close, you’ll notice that there’s a wet Chihuahua in one of the girl’s arms…
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It was after midnight and I was tired behind the wheel of my cab, when there she was, more worried about her expensive shoes than her feet…
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For years this image was my standard wedding gift. I was still driving a taxi when I took this picture. They were my fare, and as they walked into Central Park, I took what has always been a well received image…
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An old favorite…No, not the meal, the picture.
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Sometimes it’s amazing that I can remember such details from so long ago, but I remember discussing this image with a stranger on 113th Street when I took this picture. I had to convince him that it was OK and finally he realized that the couple was probably in love and then it passed his smell test. I have had so many discussions about whether or not it’s OK to photograph homeless people, and it’s one of those things that varies from person to person. Some, insist that if you don’t volunteer to work at a soup kitchen then it’s unconscionable. Me, I have definitely pondered it quite a bit, but I eventually figured that if my life’s calling is to photograph New York City, then I can’t ignore the least fortunate, nor should I make them the primary focus…They do exist and I sometimes I take their picture…
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 