Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.  

Brooklyn Bridge 1980 — © Brian Rose/Edward Fausty Time and Space on the Lower East Side came out near the end of May 2012. Deciding to do the book with a small independent publisher–after several rejections by established companies–was a big step. Raising money via Kickstarter was also a major undertaking, but in the end […]

Frank Christian, Somebody’s got to do it — cover photo © Brian Rose Frank Christian, songwriter and guitarist died on December 24, 2012. One of the mainstays of the Greenwich Village folk scene, Frank was the epitome of  cool sophistication and wit. I made this photograph for his first album back in the 1980s. The […]

Long Island City — © Brian Rose   Long Island City — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Union Square subway platform — © Brian Rose My cat’s paws, or rather foot gloves, on the move around town during the holidays.

  Washington Street — © Brian Rose It was the winter of 1985, and I was casting about for something new to photograph. I had completed projects on the Lower East Side and Central Park, and later that summer I would begin shooting the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall, a project that would continue […]

West 46t Street — © Brian Rose Once again , the Christmas spirit in New York.

Art Miami installation, the Dillon Gallery Three of my Lower East Side photographs from 1980 (made with Ed Fausty) are being exhibited at Art Miami, one of the big art fairs presently going on in the Miami area. I am being represented by the Dillon Gallery, a New York, Chelsea gallery. I just heard that […]

Continuing my series of pictures taken under and nearby the Manhattan Bridge. Made in conjunction with my ICP class, Photographing New York: the Lower East Side.   Cherry Street, under the Manhattan Bridge — © Brian Rose   Monroe Street — © Brian Rose   Monroe Street — © Brian Rose   Forsyth Street – […]

Brendan, my 14 year old son, at the Manhattan Bridge — © Brian Rose Last week my ICP class went to the area around the Manhattan Bridge on the Lower East Side. We were working off an iconic photograph by Berenice Abbott of Pike Slip looking toward one of the bridge towers. At the time […]

Excerpts of my slide talk and discussion at Van Alen Books with Sean Corcoran, photo curator of the Museum of the City of New York.

Pike Slip and  Henry Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.      

Division Street — © Brian Rose Chinatown, Manhattan Bridge, One World Trade Center in the background.  

More small camera photographs of Orchard Street made while accompanying my photo class from ICP. Pick a place as historically and visually rich as this and the possibilities are limitless. See my other photos posted previously.   Orchard and Delancey Street — © Brian Rose   Orchard Street — © Brian Rose   Orchard  and […]

I went with my ICP class, Photographing New York, the Lower East Side, down to Orchard Street for a group shooting expedition. One of the goals of the class is to produce a book of our photographs using Blurb, the online book service. Normally, there are ten sessions, but thanks to Hurricane Sandy, the time […]

On the bus, the Lower East Side — © Brian Rose The event at Van Alen Books went well on Friday evening. A small crowd, but a very cool place, where the tiered levels normally used to display books, turns into seating space. I did a slide presentation of Time and Space on the Lower […]

TIME AND SPACE ON THE LOWER EAST SIDE BY BRIAN ROSE A Slide Presentation and Book Signing Join photographer Brian Rose and Sean Corcoran, Museum of the City of New York Curator of Prints and Photographs, for a conversation on photography, place, time, and change. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 7PM VAN ALEN BOOKS NYC’S ARCHITECTURE AND […]

  Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia — © Brian Rose I made a quick escape from post-Sandy New York to get to a burial service in Richmond, Virginia for my aunt and uncle–my aunt died recently–and their ashes were buried together according to their wishes. It was difficult getting out of New York in the aftermath […]