Brendan and photo at PS 3 — © Brian Rose My son Brendan has just completed elementary school at PS 3 in the West Village, and we’re pleased that he will be attending the NYC Lab School in the fall. Our experience at PS 3 has been extraordinary, beginning with second grade when we arrived […]

Pole Dance, PS 1 — © Brian Rose Went to the opening at PS 1 in Long Island City of Pole Dance, by Florian Idenburg and Jin Liu, SO – IL (Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu) winner of the 2010 MoMA Young Architects Program.

Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

From the High Line — © Brian Rose Without comment.

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N3rd Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Early morning in Williamsburg. Dropped off my son at school in the West Village. Last week before summer vacation. Email from Berlinsche Galerie. Polite, complimentary letter, but in short, not interested in my work. Picked up portfolio from MoMA, which is interested in my work, and met […]

Feet on the street in New York — © Brian Rose It’s been about five years since I discovered that my creaky knees–the result of years of playground basketball–felt better when I went without shoes–at least at home. Eventually, I came across thin soled shoes without arch support or cushioning, that were designed to allow […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

14th Street and 8th Avenue — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Coney Island boardwalk — © Brian Rose It was a humid, though not particularly hot, day in Coney Island. Languid, drained of energy. Brendan rode the Cyclone with his uncle Willem visiting from the Netherlands. I declined. Took a few pictures around the roller coaster and up on the boardwalk. Had hot dogs at Nathan’s–boys […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Not final until the acquisitions meeting in a few months, but I think I can safely report that the Museum of Modern Art is purchasing two of my prints. One from the Berlin: In From the Cold series, and one from Amsterdam On Edge. Two very serious 4×5 pictures–unlike […]

Folk City crowd in 1978 as seen from the stage — © Brian Rose When I first arrived in New York in 1977 as a budding photographer and songwriter, I discovered Folk City, the club that was the center of the New York folk scene in the 60s. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Dave van Ronk, […]

The Bowery (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Events are typically presented in photography or TV as spontaneous despite the fact that they rarely are. Most events are staged and the image makers oblige the image controllers by taking camera positions given them, and picture editors tend to use images that meet certain expectations of […]

14th Street and 8th Avenue — © Brian Rose Without comment.

The Morgan Library, Sculptor Edward Clark Potter (1857-1923) — © Brian Rose Everyone knows the majestic lions in front of the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Far less appreciated are these female lions guarding the steps of the Morgan Library on East 36th Street. Both sets of lions were carved […]