As I continue to search for images which I may have overlooked twenty years ago, I am constantly coming across some pleasant surprises. This sign was an iconic part of Times Sq. for several decades. Once again, I do have a master printer who has kindly offered to print my work at a reasonable price. Archival Pigment Prints of most of the images on this website, can be purchased. Just e-mail me for a quote…Thanks!
Street Photography © Matt Weber
An old favorite which I need to re-scan. This is a very old and mediocre scan from a darkroom print. Zoo York made T-Shirts from this photograph a few years ago…
Street Photography © Matt Weber
© Matt Weber
© Matt Weber
© Matt Weber
© Matt Weber
Another picture which I could have printed for you at a very reasonable price. The image would also nicely dress up the cover of your next great American novel!
Street Photography © Matt Weber
I wish the days of kooky religion were gone, but these sort of sentiments are still very much alive these days. This sign was painted during the height of the AIDS epidemic and was up on a fence in Harlem for a couple of years. No one dared take it down…
Notice the © sign. Was this worth copyrighting?
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Another very old New York City parking sign from the late 1950s…Maybe these signs are below the radar of Forgotten New York, or then again maybe not…
© Matt Weber
This is a vintage NYC parking sign from the late 1950s or early ’60s…Not the type of sign I collect, but photographed amongst the overgrowth of deep Queens, I think it’s mildly interesting…
© Matt Weber
Hey, this picture might work well on the cover of an LP but CD’s have replaced them years ago. Wait a minute, MP3s are the, no make that MP4s are the format…Maybe I could crop the image a little more from each side and put it on the cover of a book, but Amazon has changed the game with their Kindle, and books are suddenly selling less than their digital counterparts. I guess I could reformat it for the I-Pad, but how long do you think that will be the rage?
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Street Photography © Matt Weber
Anyone who lived in New York back in the 1980s remembers this giant painting of “The Doctor”. Yes, the ’80s were a time when the Mets ruled New York. Many younger fans jumped aboard and I can’t blame them. The Yankees were suffering from Steinbrenner’s miserly years, when he colluded with other owners and tried to halt the giving out of huge contracts, which of course was his doing in the first place. Meanwhile the Mets had the two best young players in the game…Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden. As a Yankee fan I had to concede that the Mets were better. This trivial nonsense matters little to most people, but to diehard baseball fans, it was torture! I think Kevin Walsh of Forgotten New York will appreciate this photograph or at least I hope so. The Wilpon /Madoff fiasco is making it rather hard to be a Met fan these days. Maybe the young stockbroker who bought into the Mets will turn out to be their knight in shining armor…
Street Photography © Matt Weber
© Matt Weber
© Matt Weber
© Matt Weber
When I spent an afternoon at Coney Island in 1988, I found several of these nineteenth century fire hydrants still hanging around. They were dated 1898 and may have been the same type which were used to try and put out the famous Luna Park fire in 1944…
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He was staring at someone across the street. Transfixed might be a good way to describe him. A dirty 2×2 hardly makes one a carpenter down these mean streets…
All Photos © Matt Weber
All Photos © Matt Weber
I’ve always had a bad habit of taking pictures of people posing for other photographers. This is one of the few times it may have paid off…
© Matt Weber
All Photos © Matt Weber
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All Photos © Matt Weber
All Photos © Matt Weber
I’m going to ask Kevin Walsh, as I often do, for help in identifying this old structure. I’m guessing it may be an old railroad building and possibly located somewhere in te Bronx…I like this picture and hope to figure this out soon…
Kevin Walsh: Westchester Ave station on the NY, Westchester and Hartford RR, Westchester Avenue and the Sheridan Expressway.
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Black and White Street Photographs of New York City by Matt Weber 