W27th Street — © Brian Rose W27th Street — © Brian Rose Two pictures made across the street from each other.

Nature as Artifice, Aperture Gallery — © Brian RoseNot since they established the city of Nieuw Amsterdam in the 17th century have the Dutch been such a presence in the city as now. Everywhere one turns there is yet another event tied to the 400th anniversary of the arrival of Henry Hudson, an Englishman hired […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Two pictures made a block apart.

Blurb party in Tribeca Last night I went to the Blurb party in New York. That’s me at the beginning of the video above taken from Darius Himes’s blog. Blurb as many of you probably know is an online service with tools for creating your own book, uploading it, and having it printed at very […]

Broadway — © Brian Rose The view from the lab window where I was making 40×50 inch prints for a client. This stretch of Broadway just below Canal Street still looks like it did 30 years ago.

Whig Hall, Princeton University — © Brian Rose Charles Gwathmey, who died a short time ago, became the quintessential establishment architect. In the wake of less than stellar projects like the Sculpture for Living at Astor Place and the US mission to the United Nations, it is easy to forget that he, and his compatriots, […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

John Bartelstone and Ben Diep — © Brian Rose I’ve been to a couple of openings–one, a group show, at Aperture Gallery on Dutch landscape photography, and another, photographs of New York’s waterfront by Len Jenshel and Diane Cook. Both exhibits are worth writing about, so stay tuned for some comment once I’ve had a […]

West 4th Street basketball court (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Between games.

The Strand bookstore — © Brian Rose Without comment.

David Goldblatt exhibition at the New Museum — © Brian RoseAfter seeing the David Goldblatt show (Intersections Intersected) at the New Museum a couple of weeks ago, I struggled with a response. Despite the fact that his work is widely known, his photographs of apartheid era South Africa and its subsequent aftermath had never made […]

Greenwich Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Renee and Brendan, JFK Airport — © Brian Rose Brendan comes home after a month in the Netherlands.

Below are 4×5 film versions of two previously posted images. The first shows the ongoing construction/destruction of the Bowery. The second shows the Cooper Square Hotel and Cooper Union building where the Bowery turns into Third Avenue above E4th Street. The Bowery between Houston and Stanton Street (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Third Avenue […]

WTC memorial at KeySpan Park in Coney Island — © Brian Rose Got invited to a minor league baseball game–the Brooklyn Cyclones–who play at KeySpan Park located near the boardwalk, just beneath the landmarked parachute jump, with the Cyclone roller coaster visible beyond the scoreboard in left field. KeySpan Park, Coney Island — © Brian […]

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey(4×5 film) — © Brian Rose An outtake from my recent architectural shoot in Trenton. After completing a series of interiors, I wandered around the back of the museum to the loading dock and parking lot. A row of stone columns were lined up on against the building. The […]