Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Coney Island

Zoo York Again 2010

I was surprised to discover that my Coney Island Hoodies were selling in Russia. I asked him if I could take a snapshot for my archives and he whipped out his I-phone. I-phone photography is becoming very popular and should not be dismissed by anyone. Joel Sternfeld who is one of America’s premier large format photographers, recently published a book of his I-phone photos taken in Dubai. I think I-phones and other cell phone cameras will reach superb quality one day. Will that hurt camera sales? Yes.

More Zoo York: https://mattweberphotos.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/zoo-york-2010/

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Coney Island, Kiss Kiss

Coney Island 2010

I don’t know if these buildings are still standing, but Joe Sitt is in the process of tearing them down. He will replace them with one story taxpayers. When the outcry is sufficient, he will probably be paid handsomely to turn the properties over to other developers. This is what he has always done. Business is business, and to hell with history. Coney Islands last handful of nineteenth century buildings will make way for a Duane Reade or Walgreens! I have been going to Coney Island since ’61 and It hurts that one rich scumbag can do this and that our billionaire mayor will twiddle his thumbs and let him get away this…

 

I should create a category called “Nauseating” just for this picture…

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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), Color, Coney Island

Coney Island 2010

Black & white looks pretty good when included in a color image…I guess it’s harder to include some color in a black & white photo without cheating…Soon Adobe will come out with a program eliminating the need for photography. It will plug into a database of several trillion stock photos and create whatever you ask it to…Seriously, I was thrilled to find four people with B & W in this image. Some would say why bother when you could reassemble four people from separate pictures in Photoshop. This type of work is apparently called “Post Modern Street Photography” and is considered a fresh new approach to an old worn out type of photography. I don’t agree, but I’m usually way too nostalgic for the past and I guess I’m missing the boat again…