Photograph by Ansel Adams By now you have probably heard about the controversy surrounding a bunch of negatives of Yosemite National park attributed to Ansel Adams. Rick Norsigian from California bought them at a garage sale for $45 and now a dealer is selling them for $200 million. Now there’s more. From the New York […]

West 4th Street subway station — © Brian Rose I came across a photo of mine in the West 4th Street  subway station–part of a large installation called “Made in New York,” which features the work of New York City based architects. It’s the image on the top row, second from left, of the Holocaust […]

I went to PS1 in Long Island City to the New York Art Book Fair, an immense bazaar of independent publishers and self publishers. It was overwhelming. Thousands of books and a crowd exuding off-the-charts coolness. I felt I was in some parallel universe, a self-contained world of hyper-awareness and solipsism. Lots of great stuff […]

A photographic impromptu done while documenting the Louis Kahn bath house and day camp pavilions. The series starts with a view of the pavilions and then takes in the grove of trees, sheds, and various objects that dot this nondescript, but oddly compelling landscape. © Brian Rose © Brian Rose © Brian Rose © Brian […]

Fall little league in J.J. Walker Park — © Brian Rose The liberal marxist San Franciso Giants beat the right wing brownshirt Texas Rangers last night in the World Series. Such is the state of our politics on this election day. Somehow, I think we are all going to come out of this election as […]

Louis Kahn Bath House, Trenton, New Jersey — © Brian Rose As I suggested in an earlier post about the Kahn bath house, there is more to the project than the cinderblock changing rooms that most people are familiar with. The photo above shows the central courtyard of the bath house with floating pyramidal roofs […]

Grand Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

I mentioned a few months ago that I was expecting the Museum of Modern Art to acquire two of my photographs. It is now official. The acquisition committee approved the purchase. This is not the first time I have sold prints to the museum. They have previously acquired images from my Lost Border/Iron Curtain series. […]

Washington Square Park — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Williamsburg Bridge and East River Park — © Brian Rose I went to East River Park to my son’s soccer game yesterday evening. 107 years ago when the Williamsburg Bridge was opened, this area, just to the south–called Corlears Hook–was comprised of docks, factories, and tenement housing. 19th century Corlears Hook had an unsavory reputation […]

The first thing that has to be done is secure the border. . . East Germany was very, very able to reduce the flow. Now, obviously, other things were involved. We have the capacity to, as a great nation, secure the border. If East Germany could, we could. — Joe Miller, Republican candidate for U.S. […]

Louis Kahn bath house, Trenton, New Jersey — © Brian Rose Here are a couple of before/after photographs of the Louis Kahn bath house in Trenton. The older pictures were made on a cloudy day in February 2010 while being shown around by Michael Mills of FMG Architects, the firm heading up the restoration of […]

Photographing the Louis Kahn bath house in Trenton, New Jersey Photo by Meredith Bzdak Wednesday I photographed the newly restored Kahn bath house in Trenton. The building itself is done, but the landscaping is far from finished. So, this will be an interim set of pictures–there are magazines anxious to do stories about the restoration–to […]

Lower Manhattan from the ferry to Governor’s Island © Brian Rose Read my full account of the 1st Annual New York City Barefoot Run.

Governor’s Island — © Brian Rose On Governor’s Island before the 1st Annual NYC Barefoot Run. Stunning October weather, and hundreds of runners. About half barefoot, the others in various kinds of minimalist “barefoot shoes.”

J. J. Walker Park, Clarkson Street — © Brian Rose Mott Street — © Brian Rose I have no idea what was going on here.

Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant (digester eggs) (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose The existence of New York is based on its extraordinary infrastructure both natural and man-made. The building of the Erie Canal opened up the west, and connected New York to limitless sources of prosperity. The building of New York’s water system with its […]

h2hotel, Healdsburg, California — © Brian Rose (mouseover the image for evening view) Photographs like the one above (day and night versions) are fairly straightforward to make, but there is nothing wrong with such simple compositions. Architectural photography is first and foremost about the buildings, not necessarily the photographer’s vision. I believe the latter comes […]