Statue of Liberty (digital) — © Brian Rose Closed due to (attempted) coup d’état.  

Museum of Modern Art — © Brian Rose Way back when — the late 70s — I studied with Hans Haacke, the distinguished political/conceptual artist. Although I did not go in that direction as a photographer, it was an important experience for me, and I have believed ever sense, that art should be grounded in […]

Kent Avenue and N10th, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (digital) — © Brian Rose Without comment.  

Tribute in Light 2013 (digital) — © Brian Rose I was up in the Bronx photographing a Fordham University office space. After that I headed down to Brooklyn with my assistant Chris Gallagher. I wanted to get an image of the Tribute in Light — two focused beams of light symbolic of the Twin Towers. […]

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East 4th Street — © Brian Rose (digital) Without comment.    

Bettery Magazine interview This is an interview with me and my wife Renee Schoonbeek. First time, I think, we’ve been featured together. Bettery Magazine is an initiative of smart, the car company. Here’s what it says on their “about” page: Bettery Magazine is an online publication featuring the people, places and ideas that are changing […]

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven (digital) — © Brian Rose Without comment.  

On the street with a print from a 1985 image. (digital) — © Brian Rose Everyone thinks I should do it, so I am working on a series of before/after images of the Meatpacking District. I originally photographed the area in 1985, also venturing uptown into west Chelsea. I had completed the Lower East Side […]

Fire Island — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

From the article What Bookstores Buy: St. Mark’s Bookshop in New York City: St. Mark’s Bookshop has been located in Manhattan’s East Village for 35 years, first on St. Mark’s Place and now on 3rd Avenue. Co-owner Bob Contant, who purchases a variety of genres for the store, including photography and art books, says their customers […]

Meatpacking District window — © Brian Rose Without comment.        

The Rijksmuseum seen through “iamsterdam” promotional sculpture — © Brian Rose After almost two weeks of superb weather on Texel, the North Sea Dutch island, we headed for Amsterdam for two days before returning to New York. For many years, both the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum have been undergoing extensive renovations and were closed. […]

Den Hoorn, Texel, The Netherlands — © Brian Rose The weather has been exceptionally good, but in the evenings, fog sometimes rolls in off the sea. I made this image with the 4×5 camera as well.

Texel, the Netherlands — © Brian Rose I am in the Netherlands with my family on vacation. Yesterday evening I went out with my view camera and did a series of photographs of a small grove trees in the dunes along the coast of Texel, an island on the North Sea. Picture above made with […]

The Statue of Liberty (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Without comment.      

Liberty Island, superintendent’s house (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Liberty Island, superintendent’s house (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose After finishing with photography of the Statue of Liberty a couple of weeks ago, I set up my view camera and walked around the perimeter of the island. I was looking, in particular, for views […]

View of skyline from Liberty Island (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Two weeks ago, I photographed the Statue of Liberty on assignment. It was a two-day shoot focused on improvements made to visitor circulation inside the statue’s pedestal, and various other infrastructural upgrades that will be mostly invisible to the public. Liberty Island was a […]