Tompkins Square Park basketball courts in 1980 (4×5) from Time and Space on the Lower East Side © Brian Rose/Ed Fausty Throughout the 80s and the early 90s I was regular at the pick-up basketball games on the courts near Avenue B and 10th Street in Tompkins Square Park. I played quite a bit on […]

  EV Grieve, the popular East Village based blog, has run an interview with me. It includes my thoughts about photographing the Lower East Side as well as my take on the neighborhood today. From the interview: People don’t understand that in 1980 the LES was hanging on by a thread, every night the sirens […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose   Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose   Brooklyn Bridge Park — © Brian Rose Photoville, a photo fair/expo located in a not yet finished section of Brooklyn Bridge Park is comprised of two main parts–printed images on vinyl running along a chain link fence, and a cluster of […]

Ninth Avenue — © Brian Rose Magenta grids. Green boxes. Yellow pipes.

Brooklyn Bridge Park — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Alex Harsley, self-portrait I’ve written about Alex Harsley several times in this blog, a woefully overlooked photographer and icon of East 4th Street, where he maintains a gallery on the block pictured on the cover of Time and Space on the Lower East Side. Alex currently has a show up at the June Kelly gallery […]

  I’ve been gett a lot of press since releasing Time and Space on the Lower East Side a few weeks ago. A number of blogs have posted articles or galleries, but this is the first article from what is referred to (sometimes disparagingly) as the mainstream media. It’s a nice article, available online, as well […]

Cooper Square — © Brian Rose Cooper Square (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Even the most recent images from Time and Space on the Lower East Side are rapidly becoming historic views.    

The Morning News, June 11, 2012 A gallery and interview.

A roundup of recent reviews or articles about Time and Space on the Lower East Side: Cool Hunting, June 8, 2012    Manchester Photography, June 7, 2012   Conscientious, May 18, 2012      

The Bowery — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Broadway and 14th Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

The Brooklyn Museum In the lobby of the Brooklyn Museum on my way to the Keith Haring exhibition. Keith Haring 1978-1982, the Brooklyn Museum — © Brian Rose As well known as Haring is–certainly everyone has seen his highly graphic images even if only in a commercial context–but until now there hasn’t been a more […]

Alex Harsley, Clic Bookstore and Gallery — © Brian Rose I only took one photo during the book launch for Time and Space on the Lower East Side, and that one at the very beginning. The rest of the time I was occupied. Alex Harsley of the 4th Street Photo Gallery was an early arrival, […]

St. Mary’s Church, Grand Street — © Brian Rose Wednesday’s book launch was a big success. Over 100 people came to Clic Bookstore and Gallery–some old friends, my publisher Bill Diodato, and lots of people I was meeting for the first time–even a few of the ubiquitous moochers who took advantage of the beautiful catering […]

Ludlow Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Review in Conscientious From Joerg Colberg’s review in his highly respected blog Conscientious: Anyway, what you can take away from Time and Space on the Lower East Side is that its maker really loves the city and, of course, that he is a very good photographer. The images all were done with a large-format camera, so they […]

West 29th Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.