The Bowery • © Brian Rose The Bowery • © Brian Rose Two pictures made 30 seconds apart.

Photo by William Eggleston Continuing my observations (from a few posts below) on the Eggleston show at the Whitney. The exhibition closes today, and I’ll wrap things up with a few observations made while walking through the galleries. I began shooting color in the mid to late ’70s, and Eggleston was one of the few […]

While checking my web stats I noticed several visitors coming by way of Stan Bantos’s blog Reciprocity Failure. Stan, who is a talented photographer and writer about photography, recently compiled a list of his “top 30 photo books.” I am honored to see that he has included my book The Lost Border as one of […]

Photo by William Eggleston Continuing my observations (from a few posts below) on the Eggleston show at the Whitney. The exhibition at the Whitney is spacious, a whole floor of the museum. In my two recent visits the large holiday season crowds seemed involved in the work, not simply drifting through. A lot of people […]

Washington, D.C. Bush leaves D.C. –on my computer.

Photo by Rodger Kingston A repeat from over a year ago, but an appropriate one. A terrific photograph by my friend Rodger Kingston. Historic day.

The Whitney Museum (digital) © Brian Rose Neither the Guggenheim nor the Whitney allow photography in their galleries, which makes it difficult for me to review shows in the way I would like to. I’ve said it before, and will repeat–this does not help the museums or the artists being exhibited. It stifles free speech […]

Photo by Antonin Kratochvil Last night I went to the Czech Center to see my friend David Hrbek from the Czech Republic. He was leading a panel discussion–much as he does back home–with three distinguished Czech photographers: Antonin Kratochvil, Vladimír Birgus, and Jindřich Štreit. Kratochvil is the one of the three I had heard of, […]

Central Park (digital) © Brian Rose Without comment.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, behind a building on Metropolitan Avenue (digital) © Brian Rose We live in ugly times. I woke up this morning and looked out our window in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A swastika had been drawn in the parking lot behind a newly completed, but unoccupied, apartment building. I know that this building, and the construction […]

The Guggenheim Museum, Marquee by Philippe Parreno© Brian Rose I went to the Guggenheim and Whitney museums to see a couple of photo exhibits–Catharine Opie and Williams Eggleston. The Opie work was relatively unknown to me, and I wanted to see what or why she was given a large retrospective at the Guggenheim. Her career […]

Bedford Avenue and N 7th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (digital)© Brian Rose Cold and clear.

The Guggenheim Museum (digital) © Brian Rose Went to see the disjointed mid-career retrospective of Catherine Opie at the Guggenheim. More on that later. Can’t help but say it, but the building upstages everything in it.