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“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…

 

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Men of New York

“Mandatory Snow Picture” 2011

Even Dave Beckerman confided that he’s tired of all this snow, and then I notice that he couldn’t control himself and went to Central Park hunting for more snow pictures! In Dave’s defense, the only photographs which one will see on display in the stores that do framing, are pictures of New York covered in snow. As someone who actually makes a living selling prints, it would be financial suicide to ignore these picturesque moments in time. I’m just a big wimp and have maybe one snow mission left in me per year…

 

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Kiss Kiss, Men of New York, Times Square, Women of New York

1/1/11

Check my man out…He just reeks of confidence. Not quite Travolta circa ’77 but he still has his strut down pat, despite a crooked foot. Meanwhile she’s got quite a vibe too. Not quite Bianca circa ’71 but that outfit works, I think…Am I babbling? Yes, but I don’t feel like pondering the shooting in Arizona anymore, or the possibility that my N.Y. JETS are going to get their asses handed to them this weekend, by pretty boy Tom Brady…

 

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Men of New York, Subway

“About to Board the B.M.T.” 2007

Two of a kind. Trios, and foursomes too, are some of the things that I am unable to resist photographing. I probably should learn better self control because recently I was tossed around like a rag doll by a stubby fellow wearing a suit. Maybe he had just been fired, or maybe his wife had called him a loser and sent him packing. Either way, he was attacking an SUV with his bare hands and I of course, felt obligated to photograph him punching a small truck! He wasn’t happy with me and luckily he didn’t mess me up too badly…

New years resolution: Try to avoid being mutilated by mutants in Manhattan…

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