Valley Forge, Pennslvania — © Brian Rose Valley Forge, Pennsylvania — © Brian Rose The same morning my letter appeared in the New York Times (see post below), I accompanied my son’s 5th grade class on a field trip to Valley Forge. For me, it was a day of reflection on the values we pass […]

This morning at a cafe on Hudson Street in the West Village, I read John Yoo’s New York Times op-ed piece in which he casts doubts about Elena Kagan’s qualifications for the Supreme Court because of her apparent views about “circumscribed” executive power. I was dumbfounded that Yoo would be given nearly half the op-ed […]

More photographs from my Amsterdam on Edge series made between 1992 and 2007. Amsterdam (4×5) — © Brian Rose New plans for the Bijlmer, a troubled neighborhood built from scratch in the ’70s, in a passageway beneath a train viaduct. Amsterdam (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose In the south of Amsterdam alongside the same […]

Cafe on W54th Street near 10th Avenue Cafe on W54th Street near 10th Avenue Without comment.

Princeton Charter School — © Brian Rose Princeton Charter School — © Brian Rose I finally got the files from last week’s photo shoot out the door–14 digital images of Princeton Charter School. This being Princeton, the school is pretty posh compared to my son’s public school building in the West Village of Manhattan. The […]

Greenwich Village — © Brian Rose It’s nice weather and the open top red buses are full of tourists gawking at us like we’re wild animals in an African game park. I was at the Museum of Modern Art today meeting with one of the curators. It went well–left my portfolio to be looked at […]

Sloterplas, Amsterdam (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Continuing with new scans of the Amsterdam On Edge project I did during the 15 years I lived in Amsterdam. The photographs were made mostly on the periphery of the city, or its rougher inner edges. South of Amsterdam (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Almere (4×5 […]

We’re all a bit jumpy here in New York since the discovery of an SUV in Times Square with a makeshift bomb in it, though it was a fairly crude device that had very little chance of working in the way it was intended. The ease with which something like this can be placed is […]

Houston Street and MacDougal — © Brian Rose I saw the MoMA ad for the Cartier-Bresson show and began taking some snaps through the chainlink fence. Within seconds I was accosted by a man who requested/demanded that I stop photographing the children. I told him I was photographing the whole scene, not the kids in […]

Continuing to work on my Amsterdam on Edge portfolio. These are new scans of view camera work done while living in Amsterdam from the early 90s up to three years ago. None of these have been printed before. The greenhouse photograph was previously unprintable because of damage done to the film in the sky area. […]

Cartier-Bresson banner, Museum of Modern Art — © Brian Rose As is so often the case these days, photography is not allowed in the current Cartier-Bresson exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. So, my pictures are peripheral to the galleries themselves–a banner outside, the gift shop, the entry and title wall to the exhibition. […]