From the High Line — © Brian Rose From the High Line — © Brian Rose From the High Line — © Brian Rose Without comment.

N3rd Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Early morning in Williamsburg. Dropped off my son at school in the West Village. Last week before summer vacation. Email from Berlinsche Galerie. Polite, complimentary letter, but in short, not interested in my work. Picked up portfolio from MoMA, which is interested in my work, and met […]

Feet on the street in New York — © Brian Rose It’s been about five years since I discovered that my creaky knees–the result of years of playground basketball–felt better when I went without shoes–at least at home. Eventually, I came across thin soled shoes without arch support or cushioning, that were designed to allow […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

14th Street and 8th Avenue — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Coney Island boardwalk — © Brian Rose It was a humid, though not particularly hot, day in Coney Island. Languid, drained of energy. Brendan rode the Cyclone with his uncle Willem visiting from the Netherlands. I declined. Took a few pictures around the roller coaster and up on the boardwalk. Had hot dogs at Nathan’s–boys […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Not final until the acquisitions meeting in a few months, but I think I can safely report that the Museum of Modern Art is purchasing two of my prints. One from the Berlin: In From the Cold series, and one from Amsterdam On Edge. Two very serious 4×5 pictures–unlike […]

Folk City crowd in 1978 as seen from the stage — © Brian Rose When I first arrived in New York in 1977 as a budding photographer and songwriter, I discovered Folk City, the club that was the center of the New York folk scene in the 60s. Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Dave van Ronk, […]

The Bowery (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Events are typically presented in photography or TV as spontaneous despite the fact that they rarely are. Most events are staged and the image makers oblige the image controllers by taking camera positions given them, and picture editors tend to use images that meet certain expectations of […]

14th Street and 8th Avenue — © Brian Rose Without comment.

The Morgan Library, Sculptor Edward Clark Potter (1857-1923) — © Brian Rose Everyone knows the majestic lions in front of the New York Public Library at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Far less appreciated are these female lions guarding the steps of the Morgan Library on East 36th Street. Both sets of lions were carved […]

Valley Forge, Pennslvania — © Brian Rose Valley Forge, Pennsylvania — © Brian Rose The same morning my letter appeared in the New York Times (see post below), I accompanied my son’s 5th grade class on a field trip to Valley Forge. For me, it was a day of reflection on the values we pass […]

This morning at a cafe on Hudson Street in the West Village, I read John Yoo’s New York Times op-ed piece in which he casts doubts about Elena Kagan’s qualifications for the Supreme Court because of her apparent views about “circumscribed” executive power. I was dumbfounded that Yoo would be given nearly half the op-ed […]

More photographs from my Amsterdam on Edge series made between 1992 and 2007. Amsterdam (4×5) — © Brian Rose New plans for the Bijlmer, a troubled neighborhood built from scratch in the ’70s, in a passageway beneath a train viaduct. Amsterdam (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose In the south of Amsterdam alongside the same […]

Cafe on W54th Street near 10th Avenue Cafe on W54th Street near 10th Avenue Without comment.

Princeton Charter School — © Brian Rose Princeton Charter School — © Brian Rose I finally got the files from last week’s photo shoot out the door–14 digital images of Princeton Charter School. This being Princeton, the school is pretty posh compared to my son’s public school building in the West Village of Manhattan. The […]

Greenwich Village — © Brian Rose It’s nice weather and the open top red buses are full of tourists gawking at us like we’re wild animals in an African game park. I was at the Museum of Modern Art today meeting with one of the curators. It went well–left my portfolio to be looked at […]