As famous a cab driver from new York
Categories: North America
By Pictolic https://pictolic.com/article/as-famous-a-cab-driver-from-new-york.htmlRyan Weideman (Ryan Weideman) is an American street photographer, who moved to new York in the 80-ies. He became famous with the project "My taxi" (My Taxi), which in the end lasted for two decades.
Almost daily sitting behind the wheel, Ryan went in search of a bright and charismatic passengers. Sometimes in his lens and got real celebrities: the poet Allen Ginsberg, impressed by the photographer, dedicated to him the verse, where it is called "taxi Germiston", and at other times in the window of a nearby taxi smiling actor Ben Gazzara.
Some works of Weideman stored in the Brooklyn Museum, and the collection has already gone through several editions.
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Self-portrait with transvestite, 1997.
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Keywords: 80-e | 90-e | New York | Taxi | Portraits | B/W
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