When I first heard of this show, I thought back to my first encounters with the photographers.  It wasn’t in person (as most aren’t these days) but, through the internet.  More specifically Flickr.  Life in New York can be contained to specific neighborhoods as time is never on our side, yet somehow these four seem to be everywhere all of the time.  As contemporaries of each other in a new generation of New York documentarians, they capture moments that are immediately rendered timeless and beautiful.  More deeply familiar with each others persona and work than I am of theirs, I asked Sam Horine, Jake Dobkin, Luna Park, and Street Stars to select a favorite photograph of another and explain what makes the work so good.  Luckily, being the nice folks that they are, they agreed.  After the jump words and photos from them all.

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Sweatheart.

I first became familiar with Mike Giant’s work in 1993 when a package arrived in the mail from San Francisco.  The contents of said package included a bunch of 11″ x 17″ photocopies of drawings made on freight trains, from that moment on I was sold.  Fast forward to 2008, those drawings are lost but Mike Giant keeps on.

His latest solo show at White Walls in San Francisco opens tomorrow night and contains a vast amount of his crisp, black on white drawings that have come to define his style.  After the jump, some of my favorites that are still available for purchase.

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Motivation for many burners.

via, hurtyoubad