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. […]

Almere Buiten  (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Amsterdam (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose I’ve been scanning my Amsterdam on Edge negatives, pictures of the periphery of Amsterdam taken during the 15 years I lived in the Netherlands. Most of the prints I have of that work were made conventionally in the darkroom, and […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Mast Brothers Chocoate shop window — © Brian Rose Heading out in the morning to take my son Brendan to school. The globe in the window of Mast Brothers Chocolate across the street from our building was glowing. That’s our building reflected in the window.

Houston and Bowery, the President on his way to Cooper Union — © Brian Rose One of the most significant contributors to this recession was a financial crisis as dire as any we’ve known in generations. And that crisis was born of a failure of responsibility – from Wall Street to Washington – that brought […]

Grand and Eldridge Streets — © Brian Rose Just over a week ago there was a fire in two buildings on Grand between Eldridge and Forsythe, about five blocks away from my studio on Stanton Street. It was one of the worst fire in years in New York City–seven alarms–killing one and routing two hundred […]

I have now linked my Berlin project–Berlin: In From the Cold–to my main website. The project covers the Wall, it’s demise, and the gradual re-emergence  of a new city overlaid onto the often dark history of the old. Some of the photographs were originally included in the Lost Border, but most have never before been […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Ben’s Pizza at McDougal and W3rd Street — © Brian Rose Back when I was hanging out in folk clubs in the late ’70s and early ’80s, I survived on two basic food groups, falafel and pizza. Ben’s was and is a small pizza joint located–in those days–equidistant between Folk City and the Speakeasy, two […]

Although I was quite busy in San Francisco shooting five David Baker housing projects, and the arrival of my family for a week’s sightseeing only made things busier, I did eventually find time to see some photography at SFMOMA. There was lots to see there, but a couple of unexpected moments elsewhere seem more significant […]

Clarion Alley, the Mission, San Francisco — © Brian Rose Still sifting through my snapshots from the recent trip to San Francisco. Am hard at work on the computer finishing up the four architectural projects I photographed.

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco — © Brian Rose Green roof of the science museum in Golden Gate Park designed by Renzo Piano.

More random views from San Francisco. The Mission — © Brian Rose South of Market (SOMA) — © Brian Rose Sam Jordan’s Barbeque, Bayview-Hunters Point — © Brian Rose