Video: Street photography of New York in 30 years: a candid photo cycle from a former taxi driver
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-10 02:10
New York photographer Matt Weber presented another series of pictures telling about life in the "apple" city. He has been collecting black and white photographs for over thirty years, and today we have a great opportunity to plunge into the American retro atmosphere.
Matt Weber worked for many years as a taxi driver and drove his car around New York streets, remembering to photograph everything that aroused his little interest (by the way, recall that we have already talked about the work of Issui Enomoto, another taxi driver who also loves to shoot the streets of the city at night).
Street photography has been Matt Weber's passion for many years. Not so long ago, we wrote about his photo cycle "Urban Romance", which brought together romantically shots. V the cycle "The Urban Prisoner" A different atmosphere reigns: Collected here are photographs that reveal the unsightly, dirty side of New York. This is not how we are used to seeing this American city, but Matt Weber gives us the opportunity to find out how Americans actually lived in the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Love, violence, rudeness, calmness and regularity - this is the spectrum of emotions in this photo cycle.
Matt Weber never met the "heroes" of his photographs, this is what a casual passer-by managed to see, something that cannot be staged, but can only be lived. He explains that such documentaries cannot be predicted, they appear suddenly: “It's a matter of time and luck. When I go outside, I have no idea what kind of shot I want to take. But the advantage of street photography is that it always gives you more than you expect."
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