{"id":3568,"date":"2014-01-10T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wortraub.com\/?p=3568"},"modified":"2014-01-18T19:53:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T18:53:15","slug":"dancers-among-us-paying-homage-to-urban-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/?p=3568","title":{"rendered":"Dancers Among Us: Paying Homage to Urban Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jordanmatter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Matter<\/a>\u00a0spends most of his days hunting for the one elusive image that best captures a person&#8217;s essence and makes them look special. One of New York&#8217;s foremost portrait photographers, he has gained plenty of media coverage \u2013 and many models or actors rely on his skills to snare their next gig.<!--more--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Swimming against the ubiquitous stream of impersonal, boring headshots, Matter reinvents the photographic calling card for performers, kids, and business people alike. Many of his works deliberately play off the shot\u2019s background and surroundings; in this case one of the world\u2019s greatest cities: New York.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe city has a profound effect on every aspect of my work.\u00a0I became a street photographer when I moved to the city, using my Pentax,\u201d Jordan Matter explains. \u201cNow that I have become a portrait photographer, I still love to incorporate the city into my work because of its beauty and energy. There is nothing else that compares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MORE AT <a href=\"http:\/\/betterymagazine.com\/news\/dancers-among-us\/\" target=\"_blank\">BETTERYMAGAZINE<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Matter\u00a0spends most of his days hunting for the one elusive image that best captures a person&#8217;s essence and makes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[859,269,271,896,887,895,270,95],"class_list":["post-3568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-bettery","tag-foto","tag-fotografie","tag-jordan-matter","tag-kunst","tag-new-york","tag-photo","tag-photographie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3570,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3568\/revisions\/3570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wortraub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}