JOURNAL • BRIAN ROSE

New York/Solar Panels

by admin on 04/28/2011, no comments

Fair Lawn, New Jersey — Juan Arredondo for The New York Times I read with some amusement an article in the New York Times on New Jersey residents complaining about solar panels mounted on utility poles in their neighborhoods. “I hate them,” Mr. Olsen, 40, said of the row of panels attached to electrical poles […]

New York/Lower East Side

by admin on 04/26/2011, no comments

E12th Street, 1980 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose/Ed Fausty While working on a grant application having to do with urban farming and gardens I went back to my archive of unscanned Lower East Side photographs from 1980. I found one of a garden on E12th Street that I liked–taken on an early spring day […]

New York/Around Town

by admin on 04/24/2011, no comments

Cowgirl, a restaurant on Hudson Street, Greenwich Village — © Brian Rose 126 Front, Dumbo, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose 117 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

New York/Hudson Square

by admin on 04/23/2011, no comments

Hudson Street — © Brian Rose Have been working on another grant application–this time with the Design Trust for Public Space. They have commissioned photographers in the past to explore different aspects of the urban landscape. This year the theme is “five borough farm,” a project to survey and document urban agriculture around the city. […]

New York/Williamsburg

by admin on 04/20/2011, no comments

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment. Update: I just read the shocking news that Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya covering the uprising against the Qaddafi government. I have written about Hetherington a couple of times, someone I hailed as expanding the concept of photojournalism with his still photography and video. Two other […]

New York/Union Square

by admin on 04/18/2011, no comments

The Andy Monument, Broadway at Union Square Park — © Brian Rose Union Square Park is home to some of the finest sculptures in New York City. These are mostly traditional likenesses of important historical figures like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Marquis De Lafayette, and Mahatma Gandhi. The Lafayette statue was made by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi […]

New York/Williamsburg

by admin on 04/14/2011, no comments

Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose A new building from local firm Loading Dock 5. Despite the many mega housing projects in Williamsburg, the best architecture is often found in small infill projects like this one. The windows echo the off-the-shelf frames of the two aluminum sided houses on either side. A glimpse […]

New York/The Bowery

by admin on 04/13/2011, no comments

Cafe on the Bowery — © Brian Rose An article about the Empire State Building, built during the Great Depression, it was once referred to as the Empty State Building because of the high vacancy rate. Nice to see an architectural view used so prominently in the paper. It looks a lot better here graphically […]

New York/Lower East Side

by admin on 04/11/2011, 2 comments

University Settlement, Eldridge Street — © Brian Rose Saturday evening I went to the University Settlement for a slide presentation, which I thought was going to deal in part with the Lower East Side. It did begin with historic photographs of the neighborhood by important photographers like Jacob Riis and Berenice Abbott, but the contemporary […]

New York/Wyoming

by admin on 04/05/2011, 2 comments

Somewhere in Wyoming, 1981 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose First some disappointing news. My application for a grant from the Graham Foundation to photograph the New Religious Landscape, a project focused on Megachurches and their surrounding areas was unsuccessful. At this point, it is just about impossible for me to take on ambitious projects […]