Matt Weber
Matt Weber
Harper's Books is pleased to present the gallery’s third exhibition with photographer Matt Weber. Over the last two decades, Weber has become a cult figure in the New York photography scene, having produced a striking contemporary document of the ever-changing city. Working largely with black-and-white film and almost entirely in the unstaged setting of New York’s streets, he has cultivated an instantly recognizable aesthetic rooted in the spontaneous relationships between city and subject. His diverse body of work, which includes photographs taken in subway cars, on sidewalks, and from taxi cab windows, draws upon the traditions of analog photography in an era of digital manipulation, bringing the art of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment” into the twenty-first century. Weber also has a knack for capturing New York's signature events: from the pathos of September 11th to the jubilation of election night 2008.
Since his solo exhibitions at Harper’s Books in 2007 and 2009, Weber has attained critical acclaim as the subject of the biographical documentary More Than the Rainbow, which premiered at IFC in November 2012. Additionally, he is the author of two books: The Urban Prisoner (Sanctuary Books, 2004) and Obama (Sanctuary Books and Harper's Books, 2009). This exhibition will present an informal retrospective of his most compelling street-based work of the past twenty-five years. On view in the upstairs gallery through May 20.
Exhibitions
- June 26, 2021 - July 21, 2021
Potent - June 26, 2021 - July 21, 2021
Nicasio Fernandez: Within and Without - June 26, 2021 - July 21, 2021
Frederic Tuten: Works on Cardboard - June 10, 2021 - July 10, 2021
Ryan Wilde: Venus Su Misura - May 13, 2021 - June 26, 2021
Austyn Weiner: Morning Wood - May 22, 2021 - June 23, 2021
36 Paintings - May 29, 2021 - June 23, 2021
Matthew King: Paintings on Aluminum - May 6, 2021 - June 5, 2021
Dan Flanagan: Everything Is a Lot of Things - April 10, 2021 - May 16, 2021
JJ Manford: View From Gowanus - April 8, 2021 - May 8, 2021
Ho Jae Kim: Butterfly Dream - April 1, 2021 - May 1, 2021
Joani Tremblay: The whole time, the sun - February 18, 2021 - March 26, 2021
Scott Kahn: Afternoon of a Faun - see all exhibitions