Lower Manhattan Skyline, 1982 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose and Ed Fausty This is lower Manhattan at its most heroic and romantic seen from the upper floor of a building in Brooklyn Heights. Since 1982, several bulky buildings have blocked up the foreground and obscured the thin spires of the early 20th century–and of […]

The Shawangunk Ridge from Skytop — © Brian Rose Here are a few more photographs of the Mohonk Preserve just west of New Paltz, New York about two hours north of New York City. It’s amazing that such a landscape exists so close to one of world’s largest cities. Stay at the Mohonk Mountain House […]

Mohonk Preserve, New Paltz, New York — © Brian Rose I spent the New Year’s weekend Upstate with Renée and Brendan. We hiked and did a little cross country skiing. I began reading Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann. This morning the snowy ground and warm temperatures created a swirling fog that plunged […]

E12th Street, 2003  (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose From my World Trade Center book, WTC. Preview available here. Happy New Year!

Stanton Street — © Brian Rose Digging out today. Please visit Reciprocity Failure for a few comments on one of my photographs. And take a look at my proposed World Trade Center book here. Let me know what you think. Third Avenue and E5th Street — © Brian Rose Shepard Fairey mural on the Cooper […]

Bleecker Street — © Brian Rose Couple feet of snow and huge drifts in New York. Walking from the subway on my way to Think Coffee on the corner of Bleecker Street and the Bowery I noticed two elderly people struggling to get over a wall of plowed snow. I snapped a quick picture of […]

Front cover of WTC — © Brian Rose I’ve more or less finished with the first draft of WTC, my photo book about the World Trade Center. Like so much I’ve been doing lately I have no idea what the outcome of it all will be. This ought to be a “popular” book, but it’s […]

Barclay-Vesey building with 1 and 7 WTC (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose This is one of my favorite buildings in NY–the Barclay-Vesey building–one of the great Art Deco telephone buildings. I’ve photographed it before–this time, from a few months ago, with the 4×5 camera. It’s a wonderfully athletic structure doing a sort of architectural […]

On the FDR Drive — © Brian Rose/Ed Fausty Manhattan back in 1982 had many areas that were extremely quiet, even desolate. Few people lived in lower Manhattan then, and the weekends were exceptionally still. One Sunday morning Ed Fausty and I actually walked up on the FDR Drive and took several photographs. You would […]

Under the FDR Drive, 1982 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose/Ed Fausty I am working on a book about the World Trade Center that spans a 32 year time period. It’s a big job pulling together all the images from my archive, scanning new images and rescanning older material. In some ways this will be […]

Broadway, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Bookthugnation in Williamsburg — © Brian Rose From the window of bookthugnation in Williamsburg, a reminder that rewriting or distorting history using photographs predates the invention of Photoshop. Although I still don’t have a publisher for Time and Space on the Lower East Side, the book remains available for purchase via Blurb. At the end […]

Bedford and N7th Street — © Brian Rose Happy Hanukkah!

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Houston Street and Bowery 1957 — from the film On the Bowery In the previous post I wrote about seeing On the Bowery at Film Forum, and I connected several film locations with contemporary views of the same places. One of the spots that jumped out at me was the corner of Houston and Bowery […]

Film Forum, Houston Street — © Brian Rose On Wednesday I walked over to Film Forum on West  Houston to see On the Bowery, a movie I had heard about over the years, but never seen. It was recently re-released in a newly restored print. On the Bowery was made by Lionel Rogosin in 1957, […]

Smith Street Station, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose If you’ve been following this blog, you know that I have been piecing together a series of images that relate directly or indirectly to the World Trade Center. A couple of years ago I came across a Twin Towers mural near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. I did […]

Greenpoint, Queens (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose This is my America, from my heart, and by my heart. I give it now to my children and grandchildren, and to yours, so they will always know what it was like in America when people were free. –Sarah Palin (from the introduction to her forthcoming book […]