Second Avenue — © Brian Rose Broadway — © Brian Rose The Bowery — © Brian Rose Random stuff.    

As a proud alumnus of Cooper Union, I write the following post with the heaviest of heart. The quotes below come from the New York Times March 9, 1904, in a tribute to Peter Cooper, during which Andrew Carnegie and others expounded on the responsibility that comes with great wealth. The director of Cooper Union, […]

Norfolk Street, Lower East Side — © Brian Rose I was in Boston Thursday evening when the marathon bombers ran amok. Well… not physically. But I witnessed the events as they unfolded in a most unexpected, vividly surreal way. I was fascinated by the attempts of the public to find the bombers amidst the crowd […]

FDR Drive, Lower East Side — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Bleecker and Bowery — © Brian Rose Central Park — © Brian Rose Springtime in New York.

The Seagram Building (375 Park Avenue) — photo by Ezra Stoller A few days ago the Times ran a story about Phyllis Lambert’s book Building Seagram, which tells the story of her role in the selection of Mies van der Rohe for the commission. The Seagram Building (now 375 Park Avenue) is regarded by many […]

Dillon Gallery My show at Dillon Gallery closes on April 9. Still a few days left to see Time and Space on the Lower East Side.

Multnomah Falls, Columbia River Gorge — © Brian Rose I think I’ll close the trip out with a big touristy bang.  

Stumptown Coffee in the Ace Hotel, Portland — © Brian Rose   Powell’s City of Books — © Brian Rose Went to Powell’s nearby and was happy to see my book prominently displayed in the photo section.  

EMP in Seattle — © Brian Rose EMP is not one of Frank Gehry’s better buildings. It tries way to hard, makes too many moves, is junky rather than elegant. Nevertheless, there are moments. Here’s Jimi Hendrix and the undulating skin of the building.    

OMA’s (Rem Koolhaas) public library in Seattle, a fixture of downtown, now almost ten years old. I had seen photographs, which were impressive, but having been disappointed by some of Koolhaas’s buildings in the past, I wanted to see this one in person. The exterior is a bit jarring–wedged tightly into a difficult sloping site–like […]

Smith Tower, Seattle — © Brian Rose On the road. Not much time for comments. Smith Tower, once the tallest building on the West Coast. Still a gem.  

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                                Vancouver City Hall On the road.    

  A time out from my Lower East Side book and exhibition. My photographs of the former Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall are currently featured in the journal MAS Context. To quote their website, MAS Context, a quarterly journal created by MAS Studio, addresses issues that affect the urban context. Each issue delivers a comprehensive […]

Wythe and N4th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.        

Jason Eskenazi, a photographer, worked for a time as a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum. For two months in 2009 he arranged to get himself assigned to the galleries housing the exhibition based on Robert Frank’s seminal book The Americans. As he recognized photographer friends visiting the show, he began querying them about the […]

Time and Space on the Lower East Side at Dillon Gallery — © Brian Rose It took much of the afternoon Wednesday to lay out the show and get the frames up, but I already had a pretty good idea where I wanted things to go. The opening Thursday evening was well attended, despite wintry […]