My son and I are in Atlanta for a baseball tournament. Many of the best travel teams for 16 and under have gathered here for what is billed as the national championship. We’ve done okay, but will definitely not be winning the tournament. I’ve never been to Atlanta before, though I have family roots in […]

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Jefferson Davis grave, Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia — © Brian Rose I grew up in Williamsburg, Virginia, the one time colonial capital, and now restored town. It’s a place steeped in history, a place that played an important role in the founding of the United States, and I lived just a few miles away from […]

On the floor of the Newport News/Williamsburg Airport — © Brian Rose I recently traveled to Virginia for a family visit, and I brought along some of my work to show a former high school classmate, who is an avid photo collector. But it seems that he was not the only one eager to check […]

Williamsburg Bridge — © Brian Rose Approaching storm from the Williamsburg Bridge.

Under the Gowanus Expressway at 37th Street, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Recycling.

North 7th and Bedford Avenue — © Brian Rose Random views, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Blue Bottle Coffee, Berry Street — © Brian Rose North 6th Street — © Brian Rose

Co-op City behind Harry Truman high school  in the Bronx — © Brian Rose In many ways it’s a forbidding place, Co-op City behind Harry Truman high school in the Bronx. Tall housing blocks sprouting from nondescript parkland. The school is an architectural horror from the 1960s, and the housing towers are not much better. […]

Bleecker Street — © Brian Rose Bleecker Street, late afternoon.

Following up on my recent post about the situation at Cooper Union, I drafted a letter to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on behalf of the Cooper Union Alumni Association expressing our support for his ongoing investigation of the college’s board of trustees and administration. Additionally, the letter makes an appeal for the […]

The Whitney Museum from the High Line — © Brian Rose Yesterday on the High Line, a beautiful evening. The Whitney Museum, just opened, an odd jumble of forms and outcroppings, industrial, metallic, not quite elegant, but a strong presence from this angle.

Recent student show in the architecture school — © Brian Rose Portraits at right: Peter Cooper, Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Junius Brutus Booth (celebrated actor and father of John Wilkes Booth) It is zero hour at Cooper Union. Peter Cooper’s mission discarded: Just two years ago, chairman of the board of trustees, Mark Epstein, announced […]

Back from a week from the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. We stayed in a so-called eco-tent overlooking Salt Pond Bay in the southeastern tip of the island. It was a reasonably comfortable structure, but we shared it at various times with a mouse, a lizard, a spider, a walking stick, […]

Brian Rose and Alex Harsley — © Brendan Rose A few days ago I went to Alex Harsley’s East 4th Street Photo Gallery to document his amazing space, a couple hundred square feet chock-a-block with prints running up and down the walls, even on the ceiling, attached to cords with clothespins. I brought along my […]

Love Saves the Day, Second Avenue and East 7th Street — © Brian Rose Here in the East Village we are in shock over the explosion and fire that have leveled three historic tenement buildings on Second Avenue at East 7th Street. At present, there are missing people and numerous injured. This is the downtown […]

In front of Delancey Street photo, MIT Museum The exhibition I am a part of at the MIT Museum (Photographing Places: The photographers of Places Journal, 1987-2009) includes interviews with the various photographers, which can be listened to through headphones at audio stations in the gallery. The interviews are broken up into short thematic bites. My interview […]

Behind the Colgate clock, Jersey City, New Jersey (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose As some of you know, I’ve been working on a book about the World Trade Center for some time. Just before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, I came to the realization that I had in my archive a remarkable series of […]

Exhibition entrance with wall-size print of Delancey Street 1980 A few weeks ago, an exhibition opened at the MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts called Photographing Places: The Photographs of Places Journal, 1997-2009. Places Journal was originally a print magazine dealing with issues relating to architecture and urbanism. Each issue featured an extended photo essay centered on […]