Grand Street, Soho — © Brian Rose There’s hope in sight with ConEd’s Twitter statement that power should be back on in lower Manhattan Friday or Saturday. Although Halloween was essentially cancelled, things were still pretty spooky in the zombie zone between “Psycho path and Boo lvd ( see above).”  Stoplights are not working, which […]

Soho after Hurricane Sandy — © Brian Rose The thing that isn’t adequately coming out in the media is that unless power is restored to lower Manhattan soon, there will be humanitarian ramifications to deal with. There are no stores or restaurants open downtown below 25th Street. No supermarkets–only a few bodegas and/or delis, which […]

Soho after Hurricane Sandy — © Brian Rose The hurricane seemed rather benign at first, the winds not too ferocious, but eventually the water began to rise in New York Harbor. As a result, all of lower Manhattan is without power, the streets are largely empty, and with few cars on the streets, an eerie […]

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 […]

Sixth Avenue and 43rd Street — © Brian Rose Coming out from teaching my class at ICP in Midtown.

Jane’s Carrousel, Brooklyn Bridge Park — © Brian Rose Without comment.  

Tassafaronga Village, David Baker + Partners, Oakland, California — © Brian Rose In today’s New York Times, architecture critic Michael Kimmelman reviews two mixed income housing projects in the San Francisco Bay Area designed by the architect David Baker. Although Baker’s work has been published in various professional magazines, his profile outside of the Bay […]

Guggenheim Museum lounge — © Brian Rose A few thoughts on the Rineke Dijkstra retrospective that closes today at the Guggenheim. I’ve seen enough, or rather, I’ve seen too much. I’m not sure whose fault this is: the art market, the art media, or our cultural obsession with celebrity. At some point the person and […]

Delancey and Norfolk Streets — © Brian Rose   Delancey and Norfolk Streets — © Brian Rose A few seconds apart.      

Delancey and Clinton Street — © Brian Rose On Saturday I went to the NY Art Book Fair at PS 1 in Queens. All kinds of art publishers from big to small, serious to silly, or both simultaneously. The museum was jammed with people, the galleries uncomfortably hot–how can this many people be interested in […]

23rd Street and Fifth Avenue — © Brian Rose Would like to see an exhibition of photographs of the Flatiron Building.

  I’m not sure what the meaning of it is, but Blake Andrews in his blog B has created a compass graphic locating a bunch of books that have geographical titles. I am pleased to find Time and Space on the Lower East Side over on the right. Lower east, of course. It strikes me, […]

The Lowline exhibition Underneath the street at the foot of the Williamsburg bridge is an abandoned underground trolley storage facility. Until recently, few knew about this hidden space. From the New York Times: James Ramsey and Dan Barasch, come to the project with prestigious résumés (Yale and NASA in Mr. Ramsey’s case, Cornell and Google […]

Rector Street — © Brian Rose   Rector and Greenwich Streets — © Brian Rose   Rector Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

N7th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Manhatta Timeline, ArtSpace Buffalo — © Brian Rose I am presently exhibiting work at ArtSpace Buffalo, a non-profit gallery, along with paintings and drawings by  J. Tim Raymond and Robert Harding. Tim, who is the organizer of the show, lives in Buffalo, and Bob Harding is a painter from New York City. The gallery is […]

It’s not often that I get to showcase my photography and music together. This is an interview on BreakThru Radio about my book Time and Space on the Lower East Side. Thomas Seely, the DJ, typically mixes indie rock songs with his interviews with visual artists. He does the same in my case, but also […]

  The above paragraph is from the ICP school catalog for this fall.  Anyone interested in taking the class, Photographing New York: The Lower East Side,  please follow this link. The last time I taught this class, we made a terrific book , which is viewable on the Blurb website here. We begin the class […]