Matt Weber (Street photography), Coney Island

Coney Island 2010

I saw the negative and it reminded me of someone else’s picture. Maybe at this point in time, 99% of what I shoot is bound to look familiar. Even then, each image is a new document or “piece of art” despite being almost an exact replica of another artist’s efforts. Even worse, many of the pictures I take are doppelgangers of my own…

That said, I like this image regardless of all the nonsense I just sputtered.

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Harlem, Urban Wildlife

“Across 110th Street” 1972

In 1972 I was a fourteen year old kid studying art (oil painting) with an old Russian couple who lived in a tenement on 110th St. Nicolai Abracheff was a contemporary of Picasso and also an early cubist. I was still dabbling with photography. This was one of the last rolls of film I would shoot, with one exception for the next 12 years…

1972 was also the year that the film “Across 110th Street” was produced.

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Portraits, Subway

NYC 2010

Because of my switch to color film, I found myself staring at twenty rolls of black & White film for the past six months. I’m not a complete fool. I know that even if I’m having fun with color, the black & White stuff has to be processed. I never believed that Winogrand waited a year to develop all his film. He shot so much that a huge backlog was inevitable. When he photographed that guy with the broken glasses and blood streaming down his face, at a Vietnam protest, I think there’s a good chance that he wanted to see those frames that same night…Who knows. I’m not use to finding image after image, which I have no recollection of.

This is one of those pictures from last April…

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