Plymouth Church, Brooklyn Heights (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose On a recent assignment, I photographed Plymouth Church for the magazine America’s Civil War. This was the church where Henry Ward Beecher, the famous abolitionist preacher, delivered his sermons. Beecher’s sister was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the best selling anti-slavery […]

Hudson Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Leninplatz, Berlin, 1990– © Brian Rose Spiegel Online International: In a sign of how time is healing Berlin’s wounds, the city plans to dig up the giant Lenin monument it famously buried in 1991 and place it in a new museum for disgraced statues. The works will span the communist and Nazi eras and date […]

Houston Street — © Brian Rose Winter light on Houston Street.

Trenton Bath House, Louis Kahn — © Brian Rose In the next couple of weeks I hope to photograph the Trenton Bath House, one of architect Louis Kahn’s earliest works in its current almost ruined state. This modest, but sublime structure, is about to be restored, and amazingly, considering its pedigree, will be returned to […]

Christopher and Hudson Streets — © Brian Rose No walls. Buy clothes.

Bergen Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant — © Brian Rose Without comment.

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

Bergen Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant — © Brian Rose Wythe Street, Williamsburg — © Brian Rose Park Avenue, East Harlem — © Brian Rose The Bowery — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Meyerowitz exhibition at MCNY — © Brian Rose Writing about Joel Meyerowitz is complicated for me. While a student at MICA in Baltimore in the mid ’70s, I saw his color street photography, and having just begun shooting color myself, I endeavored to go to New York and study with him at Cooper Union. My […]

E103rd Street and Lexington Avenue — © Brian Rose Manhattan, “island of many hills” from the Lenape language, seems mostly flat, but there are places where you are reminded of the original name. At 103rd Street on the east side, Spanish Harlem, there is a slope of near San Francisco pitch. To the south of […]

Cervin Robinson — © Brian Rose Making my usual morning walk across town I came upon Cervin Robinson at Houston and Crosby Street. He was photographing the Bayard-Condict Building, Louis Sullivan’s only New York structure. Robinson has photographed this building before–and many other Sullivan buildings. Here’s a screen capture of one his photographs of the […]

Crosby Street — © Brian Rose I was drawn into Crosby Street just off Houston by the ASPCA truck with a large cat face gazing slightly upward. It was parked in front of Happy Paws Daycare with a lot of happy dogs cavorting in the windows along the street. Unhappily there were signs on each […]

Prince Street — © Brian Rose Prince Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Funeral home, Franklin, Virginia — © Brian Rose It was not a happy circumstance that brought me across the James River to Franklin, Virginia two summers ago. A cherished aunt had passed away after a long convalescence. The mood was somber, but also relieved, as her long struggle had finally ended peacefully. Funeral home, Franklin, […]

P.S.1, Long Island City — © Brian Rose Coming out of P.S.1, the Long Island City art museum, I pressed my camera up against the wall and did an almost sharp time exposure. In the foreground are metal tubes left over from an earlier installation. Having just seen Robert Bergman’s haunted and hollowed out faces […]

A series of photographs taken while visiting family in Williamsburg, Virginia. It was actually quite crowded in the restored area, and one either embraces the throng or not. I chose–this time–to go with quiet views on a couple of cloudy days. An antidote, perhaps, for somewhat too much seasonal good cheer and togetherness. Williamsburg can […]

Painter, Virginia — © Brian Rose We headed down to Virginia for the holiday to see my father who lives in Williamsburg. Instead of subjecting myself to 8 hours of stressful interstate driving I decided to take the Eastern Shore route, which took us through the farming areas of the Delmarva peninsula. We stopped a […]