Battery Park City and 2 WTC, 1981 — © Brian Rose After completing the original Lower East Side project in 1981, Ed Fausty and I were asked to join several other photographers in documenting Lower Manhattan–funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Initially we worked together, as with the LES photos, but eventually began […]

St. Nicholas Church, 1981 (4×5) — © Brian Rose/Ed Fausty In midst of the furor about the proposed Islamic center a few blocks from ground zero, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese has held a press conference to call attention to the long stalled rebuilding of St. Nicholas’s Church, which was destroyed on 9/11. From the Times: […]

Commercial and Franklin Streets, Greenpoint, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose An abandoned factory building from the 1930s, and now an environmental superfund site. Made plastic sheeting. Very simple moderne architecture–unlandmarked. Very difficult to track down much on the building, but found this in the Brooklyn Paper. And this from the New York Times. The chain […]

St. Mark’s Bookshop window — © Brian Rose Time and Space on the Lower East Side is now available at St. Mark’s Bookshop in the East Village at Third Avenue and Stuyvesant Street–that’s between St. Mark’s Place and East 9th Street. The copies at St. Mark’s are slightly more expensive than buying online from Blurb, […]

World Trade Center/Ground Zero (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose As the “debate” swirls around the “ground zero mosque,” (which isn’t a mosque and isn’t at ground zero), here is another view of construction underway on the site. Similar to the small camera shot I posted a few weeks ago, this was made with the […]

Liberty and Washington Street (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Another image from my walk around the WTC site/ground zero a few weeks ago. The fire truck is answering a call from Ten House, the fire station located on the corner. In the center of the photograph is 1 WTC under construction. To the right […]

Greenpoint flags. Franklin Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn — ©  Brian Rose Franklin Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn — ©  Brian Rose Franklin Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn — ©  Brian Rose Without comment.

1 WTC, West Street (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose I finally got my film developed from a few weeks ago. An afternoon walking around the World Trade Center site with the 4×5 view camera. This is a view of 1 WTC, previously known as Freedom Tower, which is well underway, looks like more than […]

Cooper Union, New Academic Building and Foundation Building © Brian Rose Just walking by in the light rain with my snapshot camera.

Bedford Avenue and N6th Street — © Brian Rose The epicenter of…

General Slocum memorial, 1980 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose and Ed Fausty From Time and Space on the Lower East Side: The General Slocum In 1904 over 1,300 members of the  St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church located on East 6th Street,  mostly women and children of the German immigrant community known as Kleindeutschland, set […]

Louis Kahn bath house, Trenton, New Jersey — © Brian Rose Philadelphia Inquirer article. Two of the photos in the slide show are mine. The first one, of the new snack bar is actually a progress photo taken by a staff person of Farewell Mills Gatsch, the restoration architects. Inga Saffron, architecture critic for the […]

Henry Street, 1980 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose and Ed Fausty In my periodic visits to the World Trade Center–ground zero as it still called–it has been evident to me that some visitors to the site appear involved in something more than casually ogling the impressive rebuilding of the area. As downtown New Yorkers […]

From the Williamsburg Bridge, 1980 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose and Ed Fausty There are several 1980 photographs from Time and Space on the Lower East Side that were not included in the original exhibition, either because they were overlooked or had technical problems. The photo above was difficult to print, the dark foreground […]

The phone burbled, it was a text from my painter friend Tim Raymond. He was on the road heading down from Buffalo, the city where he somehow had found himself marooned some years ago. I’ve known Tim since the mid-70s when we lived in Baltimore–I was an art student at the Maryland Institute for a […]

Photograph by Leonard Nimoy Ira, an advertising executive: “My secret self is a wizard who takes illusions and makes people think they are real.” In the Times, according to Joseph Thompson, the director of Mass MoCA where Leonard Nimoy is having his first major museum show: This equivocation between’s the subject’s plastic, almost sculptural presence, […]

Bedford and N6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Bedford and N5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Two pictures take 30 seconds apart.

The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps and the alumni of the Colonial Williamsburg Fifes and Drums — arrow points at me. Despite my failed attempts at a songwriting career, I remain a good, if largely unknown, song poet. It sounds a little grandiose, but it’s a craft I have taken seriously for many years. […]