41 Cooper Square, designed by Morphosis  —  © Brian Rose Adrian Jovanovic Hall — proposed Currently, the no name New Academic Building. A much maligned architectural wonder — largely because of its connection to Cooper’s financial problems — it was intended as a bold step into the future for the school. Turning things around at […]

Trade edition sold out. Limited Edition can be purchased here. An update on my New York trilogy of books. It has been six years since I began this self-publishing journey, first with Time and Space on the Lower East Side, then with Metamorphosis, Meatpacking District, and finally with WTC. Time and Space came about after […]

SUNY Maritime campus, The Bronx — © Brian Rose It’s opening day for the New York Mets tomorrow — Citi Field is out there somewhere to the left of the umpire standing near second base. That’s the Whitestone Bridge in the distance, and beyond that you can just make out the skyscrapers of Manhattan. We’re […]

Kent Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Walked by the new building at 325 Kent Avenue designed by SHoP, and took a peak at the lobby. Plusses and minuses. There are plusses and minuses to everything. I’ve been following the story of Cambridge Analytica for at least a year — and only now the […]

JR at the Armory Show — © Brian Rose We are living in perilous times. A raving maniac sits in the White House — people are being rounded up and deported — environmental regulations are being rolled back — and the Russians are blackmailing the President of the United States. You would not know any […]

Stubenrauchstrasse, Berlin/Potsdam, 1987 I recently received a nice email from someone who now lives in this street in Potsdam on the edge of Berlin. She’s part of a group that wants to more accurately document the path of the Berlin wall that used to snake through her neighborhood. You can see the border fencing reappearing […]

Trump Plaza, Atlantic City, 2017 — © Brian Rose On this turbulent day, with a nor’easter crawling up the coast, when Donald Trump seems more unhinged than ever, it seems appropriate that the abandoned Trump Plaza in Atlantic City would start coming apart. Trump Plaza On this tumultuous day when it is reported that billionaire […]

Cooper Union — © Brian Rose Peter Cooper statue by Augustus Saint-Gardens and the Cooper Union Foundation Building. On the road back to free tuition. There is now a plan, but one requiring focused effort on the part of all, and trust, perhaps, in the vicissitudes of fortune.

American Grotesque The innocent victim, wounds hidden beneath pillow, the wholesome family, white coated doctor, white roses, heart balloons, the gleaming modern hospital, president and first lady posed slightly to foreground. Smiles all around. Another day, another school shooting. 🙂

Prufrock Coffee, Leather Street, London — © Brian Rose In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. We stumbled upon Prufrock Coffee in Leather Street in Clerkenwell, a formerly industrial area, now full of architecture and design firms — and the gallery where my photograph is hanging. Not only was the coffee […]

Sto Werkstatt, London At the opening of the exhibition Building Images at Sto Werkstatt in London, which features the 20 shortlisted photographs for the Architectural Photography Awards. My wife, Renee Schoonbeek on the right. Sto Werkstatt, London My photograph of Atlantic City.

My photograph (above) from my Atlantic City project was shortlisted for Architecture Photograph of the Year 2017 and will be exhibited In London — opening this Thursday. I will be present at the opening Thursday evening, and will be in London through Sunday, if anyone is interested in a meet up. I haven’t been to […]

Book Cover Proposal I’ve been working on a book dummy of my Atlantic City photographs. This a closeup of the former Trump Plaza casino hotel, and the crest once had a Trump logo in the center oval. Imagine the lettering ATLANTIC CITY stamped in gold foil. Here’s what the interior pages look like: The book […]

Richmond, Virginia (35mm Kodachrome) 1971 I’ve been think a lot lately about the early days of color photography, and I’ve done a number of posts on the subject in the past. I am making a proposal to do an exhibition at Cooper Union about the school’s role in the emergence of color photography in the […]

Caesar’s garage, Atlantic City (4×5 negative) — © Brian Rose Difference in scale — almost a photographic genre in itself — is stupefyingly on display in Atlantic City. And every city planning truism about livable streets has been blown to smithereens. Learning from Las Vegas, AC gets a PhD in architecture. I am torn between […]

Harrah’s casino, Atlantic City, (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Atlantic City was built on a barrier island (Absecon Island), and for most of its history, was oriented to the boardwalk along the Atlantic Ocean — a grid of streets with names anyone who has played Monopoly knows well. The backside of the island was […]

Miss America with crown, Atlantic City — © Brian Rose The Miss America pageant was a big deal in the 1960s when I was growing up in Williamsburg, Virginia. Every year the family gathered around the TV set as we assiduously scrutinized the contestants, 18 or 19 year old women dolled up to be ageless […]

The Bowery and East 1st Street, 2010 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Republicans in Congress rushed the bill through for other reasons: to combat the fact of their own legislative incompetence, to satisfy their donors and to honor their long-held belief that the rich are America’s true governing force. The middle class and the […]