Twin Towers, 1980 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose/Ed Fausty Osama bin Laden killed in Pakistan. Nine years and seven months after 9/11. Although I share a degree of the elation demonstrated by the crowds that gathered near the White House and at Times Square last night, I’ve lived long enough to know that these […]

Fair Lawn, New Jersey — Juan Arredondo for The New York Times I read with some amusement an article in the New York Times on New Jersey residents complaining about solar panels mounted on utility poles in their neighborhoods. “I hate them,” Mr. Olsen, 40, said of the row of panels attached to electrical poles […]

Houston Street — © Brian Rose Spring arrives in New York.

E12th Street, 1980 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose/Ed Fausty While working on a grant application having to do with urban farming and gardens I went back to my archive of unscanned Lower East Side photographs from 1980. I found one of a garden on E12th Street that I liked–taken on an early spring day […]

Cowgirl, a restaurant on Hudson Street, Greenwich Village — © Brian Rose 126 Front, Dumbo, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose 117 Metropolitan Avenue, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Hudson Street — © Brian Rose Have been working on another grant application–this time with the Design Trust for Public Space. They have commissioned photographers in the past to explore different aspects of the urban landscape. This year the theme is “five borough farm,” a project to survey and document urban agriculture around the city. […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment. Update: I just read the shocking news that Tim Hetherington was killed in Libya covering the uprising against the Qaddafi government. I have written about Hetherington a couple of times, someone I hailed as expanding the concept of photojournalism with his still photography and video. Two other […]

The Andy Monument, Broadway at Union Square Park — © Brian Rose Union Square Park is home to some of the finest sculptures in New York City. These are mostly traditional likenesses of important historical figures like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Marquis De Lafayette, and Mahatma Gandhi. The Lafayette statue was made by Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi […]

Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose A new building from local firm Loading Dock 5. Despite the many mega housing projects in Williamsburg, the best architecture is often found in small infill projects like this one. The windows echo the off-the-shelf frames of the two aluminum sided houses on either side. A glimpse […]

Cafe on the Bowery — © Brian Rose An article about the Empire State Building, built during the Great Depression, it was once referred to as the Empty State Building because of the high vacancy rate. Nice to see an architectural view used so prominently in the paper. It looks a lot better here graphically […]

University Settlement, Eldridge Street — © Brian Rose Saturday evening I went to the University Settlement for a slide presentation, which I thought was going to deal in part with the Lower East Side. It did begin with historic photographs of the neighborhood by important photographers like Jacob Riis and Berenice Abbott, but the contemporary […]

Berry Street, Williamsburg — © Brian Rose A very nice post about one of my Lower East Side photographs from 1980.

Somewhere in Wyoming, 1981 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose First some disappointing news. My application for a grant from the Graham Foundation to photograph the New Religious Landscape, a project focused on Megachurches and their surrounding areas was unsuccessful. At this point, it is just about impossible for me to take on ambitious projects […]

N5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Chrystie Street — © Brian Rose My slide talk went well last night at the Mid-Manhattan library. I heard there were 58 people in the audience. Ed Fausty who did the 1980 Lower East Side photographs with me was there and participated in the Q&A. I sold a few books, and talked with lots of […]

The Bowery — © Brian Rose The corner of Prince and Bowery. I was juggling a couple of grocery bags and hailing a cab. A woman yelled “Nice picture!” and snapped a variation of same with her cellphone.

Last weekend I went to AIPAD, the giant photography dealer’s fair at the Armory on Park Avenue. I don’t have any particular opinion about what I saw–a lot of photographs–no trends spotted. Not enough time or energy to think critically about such a dizzying display of dreck to pearls. Primary observation: more galleries present and […]