Cooper Square (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose The small federal-style building at center dating from the early 19th century may not stand much longer. It is now surrounded by scaffolding, and demolition of the roof has begun. The city has just issued a stop work order, but my guess is that it will only […]

Dorothea Lange photographs, the Museum of Modern Art — © Brian Rose I’ve been reading Through the Lens of the City, NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s by Mark Rice. A few comments mid-stream. The NEA survey grants were an outgrowth of a proposal championed by Walter Mondale to commemorate the U.S. bicentennial by commissioning […]

Wall Street, 1981 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Although I’ve been posting photographs of the World Trade Center made in 1981, I also did lots of photographs of Lower Manhattan that did not include the constantly looming Twin Towers. And not all were sweeping views of the skyline like so many of the images […]

Museum of Modern Art — © Brian Rose Robert Mapplethorpe, Laurie Anderson, General Idea, and random museum visitor.

Maiden Lane from the FDR Drive, 1981 — © Brian Rose/Ed Fausty Google street view of Maiden Lane from the FDR Drive In the previous post I began discussing Through the Lens of the City, NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s by Mark Rice. From 1978 to 1981 the National Endowment for the Arts funded […]

Trinity churchyard (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose The images of the World Trade Center recently posted were not made as a specific project to photograph the Twin Towers and the WTC complex. They come from a more comprehensive look at Lower Manhattan that I did with Ed Fausty in 1981 and 1982. Ed and […]

Berry Street and N7th, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Had a very pleasant visit with Yancey Richardson, the photo gallery owner. Met with folks from the Lower East Side BID (business improvement district). Productive discussion about a possible LES exhibition.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Crosby and Prince Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Twin Towers — © Brian Rose I’ve put a lot more work into WTC, adding four new images and replacing a digital image with one from 4×5 film. One image is out. I’ve fine tuned the text and added a conclusion that goes opposite a 1978 image of the Twin Towers reflected in a pool […]

Smith Street, Brooklyn (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose I finally got the film back from the subway trip to Smith Street in the area near the Gowanus Canal. The image in WTC was from my small digital camera–the one above is from a 4×5 negative. Several pictures I took there are usable, but I […]

Greenwich Street, Fireman’s Memorial  (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Church Street, St. Paul’s Chapel Churchyard (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Earlier this week I picked up the film from my two days of shooting around ground zero. So these are scans of 4×5 film. Despite difficult snowy conditions, and a 30 second exposure […]

The Bowery — © Brian Rose Sign of the times.

Lexington Avenue and 103rd Street — © Brian Rose A few photos taken while walking back to the subway after visiting with Sean Corcoran, the photography curator at the Museum of the City of New York. I was at the museum to show him my WTC book and discuss with him publishing and exhibition possibilities. […]

The Bowery — © Brian Rose A reflective moment in the morning.

We are awash in gun imagery from Sarah Palin’s congressional crosshairs to the latest Hollywood movie Mechanic. The slogan along the top reads: Someone has to fix the problems. ENOUGH. *** While I was talking this photograph an MTA employee walked by and in a stern voice said “You can’t take pictures down here!” I […]

Vesey Street — © Brian Rose I went back to the WTC site yesterday and spent much of the day there–mostly in three spots. It was a cold cloudy day with snow occasionally falling. Conditions like that make using the view camera difficult, but it was not so extreme as to be unmanageable. I started […]

West Street — © Brian Rose I went downtown this afternoon just after a light snowfall. It was cold, but tolerable and not overly windy. I did several shots with the view camera, one similar to the image above. 1 WTC is now over 50 floors up–almost as high as the adjacent 7 WTC. Visually […]

Lower Manhattan Skyline, 1982 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose and Ed Fausty This is lower Manhattan at its most heroic and romantic seen from the upper floor of a building in Brooklyn Heights. Since 1982, several bulky buildings have blocked up the foreground and obscured the thin spires of the early 20th century–and of […]