42nd Street near Times Square — © Brian Rose Times Square is not the tawdry danger zone of the past–a delicious feast for the eyes, a hellish tourist trap–42nd Street a ghoulish gantlet of porn for commuters rushing to the Port Authority bus terminal, an underworld of prostitutes, teenage runaways, pickpockets, and do-gooder preachers leaching […]

East River Park — © Brian Rose Yesterday, I heard that my books are in the port of New York and are in the process of clearing customs. The books should be in my storage space in the next few days. I’ll be sending books first to my Kickstarter backers, and then begin distributing to […]

N3rd Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Bags of PBR (Pabst Blue Ribbon) and Carling Black Label, cheap hipster beers, after another Wlliamsburg weekend.

Expecting Time and Space on the Lower East Side to arrive on or about May 16! Launch party on Maya 23rd at Clic Gallery and Bookstore. I will be sending invitations and making announcements shortly. Second Avenue and 6th Street — © Brian Rose East 6th Street between Cooper Square and Second Avenue — © Brian […]

Second Avenue — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Times Square — © Brian Rose Central Park — © Brian Rose Without comment.

The New Museum from Reina’s Garden — © Brian Rose Behind my building on Stanton Street just off the Bowery is Reina’s Garden. The garden was once occupied by a rear tenement–two structures occupied the 25×100 foot lot with a narrow courtyard in between. In the 19th and early 20th century the courtyard would have […]

Prinsengracht near the Noodermarkt, Amsterdam (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Almere, a suburb of Amsterdam (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose I’ve been doing some renovation of my website portfolio. The two pictures above are from a major upgrade of my Amsterdam on Edge series. From the accompanying text: For 15 years I lived […]

Time and Space on the Lower East Side — © Brian Rose Update on the book. The printing and binding are complete, and I am waiting–impatiently–for a container to arrive from Germany, where the book was printed. I have a handful of copies that I am taking around and showing. I know that my Kickstarter […]

Videographer being arrested for recording Suffolk County, New York, police activity. Returning to a recurring topic on this blog, the increasing harassment of photographers by police and private security. This comes by way of PDN, the Photo District News, and shows an egregious, but all too frequent, example of police ignorance of the constitution (in […]

Houston Street — © Brian Rose Easter in New York.

One World Trade Center — © Brian Rose Today I was shooting an architectural interior on lower Broadway with a view from the 25th floor of One World Trade Center. They have a stunning view of the tower and the construction of the transportation center in the foreground. I shot two frames with a 24mm […]

Presenting Time and Space on the Lower East Side at the Duo Theater — © Bill Diodato My publisher, Bill Diodato, on his blog here with comments and additional photos. And Stan Banos here on his blog Reciprocity Failure.

Orchard Street 1909 Throughout working on my Lower East Side project, I have been aware of the rich photographic history attached to the neighborhood. Turn of the century photographers like Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis established the image of the LES as a place of hardship and corruption in need of social reform. Later, Berenice […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose This evening I will be introducing my book Time and Space on the Lower East Side. I believe there is a waiting list for seats, but my guess is that there will be some cancellations. So, it’s worth a try getting in touch with the sponsor if you’d still […]

Park Avenue — © Brian Rose A short walk between the 103rd Street subway entrance and the Museum of the City of New York. After the economic downtown of a few years ago, the neighborhood seems to be  gentrifying at a fast pace. On Lexington Avenue there is new apartment building nearing completion, and a […]

Houston Street — © Brian Rose The graffiti wall on Houston Street and Rag and Bone, a clothing shop.

DeWitt Clinton Park, West 52nd Street — © Brian Rose From the New York Times, February 5, 2012: “Think of layers of wax that are just squeezed,” Mr. Horenstein said. “Even when it’s weathered, you can see all those convolutions.” The marvels continued, as a granitic substance filled in the cracks after the deformation, creating delicate […]