Matt Weber "New New York", (Street photography), signs, Times Square, Women of New York

“Taliban Attacks U.S.”

TimesSq-TALIBAN-matt-weberI saw the showgirl in bodypaint and then saw Kenny Powers the redneck asshole (Only on HBO) throwing around what I assumed were $100 bills on a giant billboard. A silly image showing America in some of its more over the top ways. I did not see the zipper and its message about the Taliban. The irony is that what I had just photographed were exactly the type of things which would make the Taliban want to attack us…

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Matt Weber (Street photography), Fights & Playfights, homeless, Old New York, Urban Landscape

“The Minnesota Strip” 1989

Back in the 1970s the stretch on 8th Ave. north of the port authority, was called “The Minnesota Strip” because of the large amount of runaway teens (from the mid-west) that would get off the bus and wander up 8th Ave. Often these kids were preyed upon instantly as they got off the Greyhound bus by the local pimps, and within days they were selling their bodies for their new employers…

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This is the photo Joe Lhota stole from me!

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