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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Matt Weber (Street photography), Color, Old New York, Times Square

Times Sq. 2010

Maybe my nostalgia gets a little carried away sometimes…This metal piping was used over 100 years in many subway stations to keep people from falling into stairwells and subway tracks. Hardly ornate, I was still sad to see all remaining traces of this removed from the 96th Street station. It would be nice to have just a smidgen of tradition here and there…

Same thing goes for Coney Island. Ruby’s bar is probably gone forever and should have been given a reprieve. Yes, upgrade the rest, but for once don’t clean the slate completely…

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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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