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 […]

Cooper Union, Foundation Building — © Brian Rose I have not previously weighed in on the controversy embroiling my alma mater The Cooper Union, one of the most prestigious and historic schools in America. I read the paper, I look at websites, and hear things, but I have no inside track on what is going […]

Coffee Table — © Brian Rose In the printed paper, Sunday. Online link here.  

    Time and Space on the Lower East Side featured in the New York Times. It will run in the print edition of the Metropolitan section of the Sunday Times and online. Exhibition opens this Thursday: Dillon Gallery 555 W25th Street New York, NY 10001 March 7 – April 9 Opening Reception, Thursday 6-8pm […]

West Street (West Side Highway) and West 10th Street, Greenwich Village — © Brian Rose   Bedford Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Two random photographs walking around town. A few thoughts about movies and photographs. There are three movies up for Best Picture in the Academy Awards this weekend that have created a […]

Time and Space on the Lower East Side will be exhibited at Dillon Gallery from March 7 to April 9. Dillon is on West 25th Street in the gallery district of Chelsea on the same block as Pace Gallery and the Tesla electric car showroom. Like most of the galleries in Chelsea, it was originally […]

Broadway and East 9th Street — © Brian Rose   Ridge Street — © Brian Rose A few random pictures and random thoughts. As my Lower East Side show approaches I wonder how (or if) the work will be put in context with the photography being made back in the late 70s, and the way […]

Comparing two tests before making a 50×62 inch print — © Brian Rose I have completed printing for my upcoming show at Dillon Gallery in New York City. The opening is March 7, and I’ll be posting a formal invitation soon. Yesterday I spent about eight hours in the lab shepherding my digital files through […]

Charles Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.        

Joe Henderson, Jeff Hardy, Jack Hardy, and Howie Wyeth, late ’70s — © Brian Rose I’ve written before about Jack Hardy, my songwriter friend, who died almost two years ago. I recently attended a memorial service for his father, Gordon Hardy. An earlier post here. And jackhardy.com here. Jack cultivated the role of the self-taught […]

West Street – © Brian Rose Even on the gold coast of the West Village with some of the most expensive real estate in the world, there are, amazingly, still scenes like this one.        

West Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.            

  Very cold in New York City.          

  East 3rd Street — © Brian Rose Inauguration day (and Martin Luther King day) 2013. Just a scary reminder of what could have been had things turned out differently four years ago. The poster above, of course, is Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin, the former vice presidential candidate, now sliding, it would seem, into […]

Hudson River Greenway — © Brian Rose This is an image made a number of months ago with the 4×5 camera that I’ve just gotten around to scanning. WTC 1 had reached it’s full height–even now the glass is not all the way to the top.        

Adding to a post from a few days ago: In 1982 I was asked by Frank Christian to take photographs for his forthcoming album “Somebody’s got to do it.” I went to Frank’s skylighted studio apartment on the top floor of a Greenwich Village townhouse, and we sat around chatting, drinking coffee, snapping pictures. The […]

  A very nice piece written by Eric Walstedt about my upcoming show at the Dillon Gallery. Eric, the director of the gallery, lived on the Lower East Side in 1980 when I began photographing the neighborhood with Ed Fausty. The exhibition will feature about 25 images from Time and Space on the Lower East […]