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, […]

Stanton Street — © Brian Rose Stanton Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Photographing the Lower East Side | Make Your Own Book I just completed teaching a class at ICP (International Center of Photography) called Photographing New York: The Lower East Side. It was a class based on photographing the neighborhood and then assembling a book of our work. I knew this would be a challenging class […]

34th Street — © Brian Rose Tis the season.    

Park Place — © Brian Rose Friday evening I walked down to the World Trade Center with an invitation to the 48th floor of 7 WTC, the first completed structure in the rebuilding post 9/11. Silverstein Properties, the owner, has made the 48th floor available as an artists’ studio, though soon the occupants will have […]

Barclay Street — © Brian Rose 4pm–a block away from the World Trade Center.    

The Bowery — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Allen Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.    

Final cover design of Time and Space on the Lower East Side Time and Space on the Lower East Side is now complete and on its way to the printer in Germany. My publisher tried to get a printer in New York, but none offered the price/quality proportion desired. It’s a sad testimony to American […]

Van Cortlandt Park — © Brian Rose Quotes from the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation website: The Wiechquaskeck Lenapes occupied this site when, in 1639, the Dutch East India Company brought the first Europeans to settle in the Bronx. In 1646, Dutchman Adriaen Van Der Donck (1620-1655) became the first single owner […]

The Bowery — © Brian Rose Without comment.      

Cherry Street and Market Slip — © Brian Rose Rutgers Street — © Brian Rose Rutgers Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.  

Greenwich Street near the World Trade Center  (4×5 negative) — © Brian Rose I’ve been catching up on scanning recent 4×5 negatives from the Bowery and the World Trade Center, my two current projects. The image above was made a few months ago and was taken a couple of blocks from ground zero. A fence […]

Three random images from the last few days. Stanton Street — © Brian Rose Stanton and Chrystie Street — © Brian Rose Grace Church, Broadway and 10th Street — © Brian Rose

Houston and Bowery with Keith Haring  re-creation, 2008 — © Brian Rose A year ago I discovered the origins of the Houston/Bowery wall, a slab of concrete that hosts a regularly changing display of graffiti and street art in various media. The wall always seemed odd to me because it was free standing and stood […]

Bryant Park, 42nd and Sixth Avenue — © Brian Rose Bryant Park, 42nd and Sixth Avenue — © Brian Rose Etherial and material in Midtown.    

At Think Coffee on the Bowery — © Brian Rose Thoughts over breakfast this morning–cognitive dissonance department. Mario Batali, celebrated chef and restaurateur at a Time person of the year event: “The way the bankers have toppled the way that money is distributed, and taken most of it into their own hands,” Mr. Batali said, […]

The Bowery and Great Jones Street — © Brian Rose An auto repair holdout in the midst of increasing opulence on the northern end of the Bowery. A beautiful, mild, November day, I decided to go out with my view camera and just work this corner. Was there about an hour and shot four or […]