Rainy morning, the Bowery and Bleecker Street — © Brian Rose A few more thoughts about Kickstarter prompted by two recent articles, one in the New York Times by David Pogue, who writes a popular tech column, and the other by Jörg Colberg in his blog Conscientious. Kickstarter, for those of you who haven’t heard, […]

Cooper Square — © Brian Rose 41 Cooper Square, the new building at center designed by Thom Mayne of Morphosis. The Standard Hotel, East Village, designed by Carlos Zapata.    

14th Street and Eighth Avenue — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Kodak Gallery at 43rd Street and the Avenue of the Americas, 1978, (current location of ICP) — © Brian Rose When I first began shooting color in the mid-70s, making prints was difficult. You couldn’t easily set up a home darkroom–color enlargers were expensive, and the chemicals were finicky compared to black and white. So, […]

34th Street and Eighth Avenue — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

No to SOPA! Protect artists’ rights, not corporate interests.

The Bowery and Great Jones Street (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose While reading the New Yorker I came across a quote attributed to late choreographer Merce Cunningham.  From Joan Acocela’s article: …stories or even themes put the spectator in the position of someone standing on a street corner waiting for a friend who is late: […]

The Bowery and E1st Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

ArtUp on ABC News, Channel 7 From last week: Nice to see some publicity for FAB’s ArtUp program, which involves using construction scaffolds, containers, and other kinds of spaces and surfaces for public art. My WTC mural on the sidewalk shed on East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue is shown twice in […]

Some updates on Time and Space on the Lower East Side. We are looking at a mid- to late March release of the book depending on how long it takes for the shipment from the printer in Germany to arrive by sea freight and to clear customs. I expect to have a small number of […]

Second Avenue — © Brian Rose Entrance above to Marble Cemetery, Second Avenue between East 2nd and East 3rd Streets. Second Avenue — © Brian Rose Best coffee in New York. Didn’t try it.    

Yesterday I saw the first set of proofs from the printer for my upcoming book Time and Space on the Lower East Side–they look amazing. The color is spot on with no loss of vibrancy. Having looked at lots of photo books and done my own color prints for some 30 years, I have to […]

1 World Trade Center — © Brian Rose I went down to the area around the WTC yesterday–January 1, 2012. Above is the view of 1 WTC, still not topped out, from Broadway and Ann Street. St. Paul’s church is to the left of the tower. 1 WTC is now around 90 stories with 14 […]

We walked the High LIne on Christmas Day with relatives visiting from out of town. It was a relatively mild day with sun and clouds, the low slanting light of late December. The plantings on the High Line at this time of year are mostly brown with bits of color here and there, holly bushes […]

Bedford and N7th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose It’s all one big holiday mash-up this year. Christmas: December 25, Hanukkah: December 20-28, Kwanzaa: December 26-January 1. A veritable Roman-style Saturnalia.    

West 43rd Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Morning walk… Essex Street — © Brian Rose Allen Street — © Brian Rose Allen Street — © Brian Rose Stanton Street/Sarah D. Roosevelt Park — © Brian Rose    

Czech/Austrian border 1987 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose It is with great sadness that I note the passing of Vaclav Havel, playwright, political dissident, and former president of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic. When I traveled the Iron Curtain in 1985 and 1987, Havel and others who resisted the communist/Soviet hegemony of eastern Europe, […]