The Bowery (digital) • © Brian Rose Walked through the Lower East Side and up the Bowery with Rodger Kingston, photographer and Walker Evans scholar. Took the snap above. If you haven’t seen it, be sure to read Suzanne Vega’s blog post on the New York Times website about the origins and subsequent history of […]

The Bowery • 2008 (4×5 film)©Brian Rose Without comment.

Morgan Stanley • London trading floor (4×5 film)© Brian Rose Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the last big independent investment banks on Wall Street, will transform themselves into bank holding companies subject to far greater regulation, the Federal Reserve said Sunday night, a move that fundamentally reshapes an era of high finance that defined the […]

Lower Manhattan (4×5 film)© Brian Rose Without comment.

Wall Street • 1981 (4×5 film)© Brian Rose Without comment.

The World Trade Center • 1982 (4×5 film) © Brian Rose In 1974 when the WTC was just being completed, Philippe Petit, a French street performer strung a cable between the Twin Towers and proceeded to tightrope walk back and forth 6 or 8 times. Thousands watched in amazement from below. Eventually he surrendered to […]

In 1975 when I first went to art school (MICA in Baltimore) I was shooting exclusively in black and white. It was understood implicitly that fine art photographs were monochromatic–color was National Geographic and cigarette ads. I’d been interested in color for a couple of years going back to a single roll of slide film […]

I’ve written already about the New York Waterfalls by Olafur Eliasson, which will be coming down soon after a summer of pumping water up and over their steel scaffolds. I’m not sure this was great success as public art, but it obviously was good for the city from a tourism point of view. The water […]

Delancey Street and Ludlow (digital)© Brian Rose As an architectural photographer, it is my job, to make buildings look good, and to elevate the work of the architect who designed them. That does not mean that I have to like everything I photograph. I understand better than most, how decent designs get crushed by value […]

Delancey Street (digital)© Brian Rose Without comment.

Wasilla, Alaska (from Flickr) President Palin–America’s mayor/commander-in-chief.