I finally found this negative and rescanned this image which has always been one of my better “Urban Blight” pictures…
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“U.S. Mail” Harlem 1988
I look through my early negatives and wish I had better skill sometimes, but even if I didn’t know how to photograph something back then, I knew what to photograph…
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“Homeless in Harlem” 1989
Hard times back then, but all of a sudden the homeless population has surged and is approaching the levels I remember seeing when I drove a taxi in the 1980s…
Harlem December 7th 1986
New scan of an older image which I had dated to the day…
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“Top of The Met” 2011
Maybe he’s reaching for his Leica…I know a couple of ex security guards who use to work at the Met, and now they are world class photographers…
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“Central Park-San Remo” 2012
Every now and then I go soft and shoot something postcard worthy…It’s not like I’ve gone so soft that I’ve started to listen to Coldplay…
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“Enduring Life” 2006
I wasn’t even fifty when I took this but I’ve always been aware of how abbreviated our time is, and sometimes I wonder why the reward for a lifetime of work is, pain…
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“Somewhere in Pennsylvania” 2012
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“Try to make ends meet…Try to find some money, then you die”
The only road I’ve ever been down…
©Matt Weber 1990
“Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” 2011
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“Gas Station Remnants” Kentucky 1986
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“A Spectacle” 2004 (New Scan)
Here’s a much better scan as promised…
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“No More Mardi Gras!” Times Sq. 1988
Staying on the subject what a can of spray paint can accomplish….Here is an example of urban purification with a single can of Krylon…
This image will print very well up to 24″x36″ E-mail for details.
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“KYLE” Broadway Local 1986
When I quit writing Graffiti in 1976 I never looked back…When I started photographing New York it never occurred to me that I should hit the tunnels again, with a camera instead of paint…Oh well, I could drown myself with all the spilt milk!
©Matt Weber
“The Garden” 2003 (New Scan)
I’ve been told this picture is timeless. I just scanned it last night and can finally offer prints…
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“Yellow & Black Porcelain Sreet Signs” F.D.R. Drive 1989
These 1950’s porcelain street signs were still up on the FDR drive in 1989…
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“Unthinkable Sex” Times Sq. 1987
I kinda wish I had burned a few rolls of Kodachrome down around these old theaters, but this all I got.
I could always “Colorize” these pictures like Ted Turner did with Casablanca…
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“Deluge” Upper West Side 2010
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“CBGB” The Bowery 1986
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“Heroin Chic” 2005 (New Scan)
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“Babe’s” Checker Taxi 1986
Any New Yorker who paid attention to such things will remember “Babe’s” taxi fleet from Fort Lee N.J.
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“Minor Mayhem” Spanish Harlem 1986
I didn’t take many pictures in East Harlem and I was surprised to find this one…It includes the famous Italian restaurant Patsy’s. I never ate there but its suppose to have the best pizza money can buy…
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“iN-PUBLiC Display of Affection” 2012
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 