JOURNAL • BRIAN ROSE

Berlin/Leninplatz

by admin on 01/27/2010, no comments

Leninplatz, Berlin, 1990– © Brian Rose Spiegel Online International: In a sign of how time is healing Berlin’s wounds, the city plans to dig up the giant Lenin monument it famously buried in 1991 and place it in a new museum for disgraced statues. The works will span the communist and Nazi eras and date […]

Trenton/Kahn Bath House

by admin on 01/25/2010, 4 comments

Trenton Bath House, Louis Kahn — © Brian Rose In the next couple of weeks I hope to photograph the Trenton Bath House, one of architect Louis Kahn’s earliest works in its current almost ruined state. This modest, but sublime structure, is about to be restored, and amazingly, considering its pedigree, will be returned to […]

New York/Around Town

by admin on 01/20/2010, no comments

Bergen Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant — © Brian Rose Wythe Street, Williamsburg — © Brian Rose Park Avenue, East Harlem — © Brian Rose The Bowery — © Brian Rose Without comment.

New York/Joel Meyerowitz

by admin on 01/16/2010, no comments

Meyerowitz exhibition at MCNY — © Brian Rose Writing about Joel Meyerowitz is complicated for me. While a student at MICA in Baltimore in the mid ’70s, I saw his color street photography, and having just begun shooting color myself, I endeavored to go to New York and study with him at Cooper Union. My […]

New York/E103rd Street

by admin on 01/15/2010, no comments

E103rd Street and Lexington Avenue — © Brian Rose Manhattan, “island of many hills” from the Lenape language, seems mostly flat, but there are places where you are reminded of the original name. At 103rd Street on the east side, Spanish Harlem, there is a slope of near San Francisco pitch. To the south of […]

New York/Crosby Street

by admin on 01/12/2010, no comments

Cervin Robinson — © Brian Rose Making my usual morning walk across town I came upon Cervin Robinson at Houston and Crosby Street. He was photographing the Bayard-Condict Building, Louis Sullivan’s only New York structure. Robinson has photographed this building before–and many other Sullivan buildings. Here’s a screen capture of one his photographs of the […]

New York/No Photos Allowed

by admin on 01/11/2010, one comment

Crosby Street — © Brian Rose I was drawn into Crosby Street just off Houston by the ASPCA truck with a large cat face gazing slightly upward. It was parked in front of Happy Paws Daycare with a lot of happy dogs cavorting in the windows along the street. Unhappily there were signs on each […]

New York/Franklin, Virginia

by admin on 01/05/2010, 2 comments

Funeral home, Franklin, Virginia — © Brian Rose It was not a happy circumstance that brought me across the James River to Franklin, Virginia two summers ago. A cherished aunt had passed away after a long convalescence. The mood was somber, but also relieved, as her long struggle had finally ended peacefully. Funeral home, Franklin, […]

New York/Long Island City

by admin on 01/01/2010, one comment

P.S.1, Long Island City — © Brian Rose Coming out of P.S.1, the Long Island City art museum, I pressed my camera up against the wall and did an almost sharp time exposure. In the foreground are metal tubes left over from an earlier installation. Having just seen Robert Bergman’s haunted and hollowed out faces […]