Union Square Park, September 2001 — © Brian Rose “Under those eight years before Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attacks in the US.”  – Rudy Giuliani Excuse me?!

 Save the date!! September 8, 6:30pm, the Great Hall at Cooper Union in NYC.

This is it folks. Advance copies of WTC have arrived from the printer, and — what can I say — the book is stunning. The original design for the cover had the letters WTC dissolving into a close-up of the skin of one of the Twin Towers, symbolic of their disappearance and ghostly presence. But […]

WTC folded and gathered pages — © Brian Rose It may look a little sloppy, but the loose pages shown in the photo above are actual offset printed pages for my forthcoming book, WTC. These are the so-called F&Gs (folded and gathered) straight off the press and air freighted from Hong Kong to New York […]

Hitting tunnel, Elizabeth, New Jersey — © Brian Rose My son is a 17-year-old baseball player just finishing up his junior year of high school. If you have survived the move from the little league diamond to the full-sized diamond, you’re already in an elite group. The fact is, most human beings cannot throw the […]

White Plaiins Road, The Bronx — © Brian Rose In the midst of running my Kickstarter campaign — which was successful despite a nail biting finish — I traveled up to the Bronx to see my son play baseball with his school team. New York City has decent quality baseball despite horrible conditions, fields that […]

Today is the last day of my Kickstarter campaign, and  the big news (at least for me) is that I have decided to print 2,000 copies of WTC instead of the 1,000 originally planned. Time and Space on the Lower East Side is sold out, and Metamorphosis is down to the last 200 copies. So, […]

Staten Island Ferry, 1977 — © Brian Rose I was a student in 1977, a newcomer to the city I had long dreamed of making my own. I walked all around lower Manhattan with a Nikkormat 35mm camera, a brilliantly stripped down camera made by Nikon, shooting color slide film. I was discovering New York, […]

A great article and interview about WTC in CityLab, The Atlantic’s web zine about urban affairs. Mark Byrnes writes: …most who page through WTC will contemplate Manhattan’s relentless transformation since a turbulent and mythologized 1970s. Change has come through economic shifts, public policy decisions, and tragedy. Rose’s work provides a clear, visual understanding of what the city […]

8th Avenue and 40th Street — © Brian Rose Trump is the Republican party. WTC, my next book on Kickstarter. Please support.

World Trade Center construction fencing — © Brian Rose I am now at 26% of my Kickstarter goal. On target, but only if I can keep up the same pace for the next three weeks. I don’t have any big donors to count on. This is about individuals who are willing to step up and […]

Paul Avenue, The Bronx — © Brian Rose Whatever happened to the Freedom Tower? That is what former Governor George Partaki called One World Trade Center when it was still an architectural concept. And if you wander through the crowds of tourists downtown, you will still hear people refer to David Child’s 1,776 foot tall […]

WTC Cover — © Brian Rose I’ve been showing a cover mockup for WTC that has dull gray lettering — looks good, but not inspiring. Yesterday, we got the cover proof with silver foil stamped onto a matte background.  The result is, in my opinion, stunning. The letters WTC appear almost to float in air. […]

https://youtu.be/j8lWpz4j8zw WTC is book about the Twin Tower, their presence and absence, and about the rebuilding of the city after September 11. It is also a tribute to New Yorkers and all who carry a piece of this great city with them. It is a book that commemorates rather than exploits, a book that preserves memories, […]

Under the FDR Drive, 1981 — © Brian Rose/Edward Fausty A photograph made underneath the FDR Drive in 1981 in the area of the Fulton Fish Market. Early in the morning the area under the highway would have been busy with trucks and all the hustle and bustle of the market. Later in the day, […]

Mulberry, Bleecker, Lafayette triangle — © Brian Rose After a mild winter, a stingy spring, finally aflower.

Brian Rose in 1980 on the Lower East Side — Photo by Edward Fausty A little indulgence on my birthday — a photograph of myself made in 1980 while doing the Lower East Side project with Edward Fausty. We were out shooting with the 4×5 view camera, and Ed took this picture. I was 25 […]

Wiliamsburg, Virginia — © Brian Rose You reach a certain age, perhaps effortlessly if you are fortunate, aware that your time is not unlimited, but there is enough to play with, to seek further satisfaction in career and family. And just as you reach this age of fulfilling potential, your sense of hard-earned equilibrium is […]