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
- January 14, 2021 - February 13, 2021
Eliot Greenwald: Takin’ the Riverboat Out on Snake Lake - January 13, 2021 - February 13, 2021
Spencer Lewis: Six Jutes (2) - December 9, 2020 - January 9, 2021
Spencer Lewis: Six Jutes (1) - December 10, 2020 - January 9, 2021
12 Artists - October 31, 2020 - December 6, 2020
Kevin Teare: L’Ecole Horizontale - October 28, 2020 - December 5, 2020
Kevin McNamee-Tweed: Moon Over Math Town - October 10, 2020 - November 22, 2020
Michelangelo Lovelace: Brick City - September 26, 2020 - October 26, 2020
Angel Otero: Broken Record - September 24, 2020 - October 24, 2020
Claire Colette: Fire, Rain, Heat, Night - August 28, 2020 - September 28, 2020
Enoc Perez: The Fires - August 15, 2020 - September 17, 2020
Alejandro Cardenas: AEAEA - July 25, 2020 - August 27, 2020
Spencer Lewis: Literacy Devolves Into Violence - see all exhibitions