There’s been a lot of discussion recently about Photoshop manipulation of images. It is a never ending debate–what is allowable, appropriate, ethical, etc. As a photographer whose work is mostly rooted in the visually tangible world, I avoid altering images, and I crop minimally. It is an unstated, but understood, agreement with myself and with […]

Seventh Avenue and Christopher Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Jack hardy (with Mandolin) and Brian Rose (yellow shirt) on stage at Folk City, the legendary folk club (late ’70s) Jack Hardy, the songwriter, came over to my studio today to have me scan some old snapshots–some had me in them. I’ve known Jack since 1977 when I arrived in New York. I was an […]

Trenton Bath House — © Brian Rose Trenton Bath House — © Brian Rose Limited demolition and construction has already begun on the Louis Kahn bath house, so I will not be doing “before” pictures with the 4×5 camera. Disappointed that there wasn’t the money to get me down there in time, but I have […]

Broadway and Prince Street — © Brian Rose Prada parade.

7th Avenue — © Brian Rose Football season over. Winter slowly winding down despite recent snows.

Hudson Avenue and Water Street — © Brian Rose Vinegar Hill is a small neighborhood in Brooklyn located between the Brooklyn Navy Yard and Dumbo. Go here for a map. We did a long walk on Monday from Williamsburg to Dumbo, over the Brooklyn Bridge, up Broadway, and then over the Williamsburg Bridge to make a […]

Mott Street between Prince and Spring — © Brian Rose Used to be part of Little Italy, now known as Nolita. Bah. Lots of small shops, designer clothes, as well as vestiges of its Italian roots. An intimate urban neighborhood, it’s just on the other side of the Bowery from my studio on Stanton Street. […]

Hudson Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Ralph Lauren ad from the New York Times website. Grubby commercialism. Ugly clothes. Creepy authoritarian vibe. 100% fail.

10th Avenue — © Brian Rose First post using WordPress. It hasn’t gone as smoothly as I hoped. Can’t seem to  install into the same location as my Blogger site. So, I’m redirecting people here, and giving up on saving my Blogger permalinks. In any case, I’m happy with the new interface, both the look […]

Blogger/Google is dropping its support for ftp blog publishing next month. For those of us wishing to keep our photographs and other files on our own server that means migrating to a new platform–WordPress. So, here goes nothing. Hopefully nothing. New URL: https://www.brianrose.com/blog

Disneyland Castle 1962 by Diane Arbus In Chelsea before the big snowfall, I went to the Richard Misrach show (see post below), and across the street, to see new photographs by Williams Eggleston and older, unpeopled, photographs by Diane Arbus. This Arbus work, though less known, has much of the same foreboding, edgy quality as […]

10th Avenue — © Brian Rose After a year and a half of exposure to this virulently toxic presence, the question on the table is: In our lifetime, has there ever been a worse human being in American politics than Sarah Palin? For all the morons and criminals and bigots we’ve been subjected to, has […]

As a landscape photographer working in color with a view camera I have always had enormous respect for Richard Misrach. I own several of his books, and regard him as a pioneer in the field. After years of sticking to a reliable, if predictable, way of working, Misrach has recently experimented with different points of […]

Knox Hall, Columbia University — © Brian Rose Assignment work photographing Knox Hall at Columbia University for the architects. Aside from shooting the lobby, classrooms, and various offices, I photographed the geothermal well system in the basement. The four wells are 1,800 feet deep and the system heats and air conditions the building reducing energy […]

Leroy Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Plymouth Church, Brooklyn Heights (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose On a recent assignment, I photographed Plymouth Church for the magazine America’s Civil War. This was the church where Henry Ward Beecher, the famous abolitionist preacher, delivered his sermons. Beecher’s sister was Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the best selling anti-slavery […]