La Mama gallery, E1st Street — © Brian Rose The large Lower East Side print I made for my exhibition in Brooklyn last summer, is now hanging in a group show at La Mama gallery on E1st Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue. It’s a holiday exhibition featuring friends of La Mama, the pioneering […]

The last–probably–of the 4×5 film scans of from my recent trip to Berlin. I shot about 60 sheets of film, so there’s lots to work with. Some of these are similar to digital pics posted earlier. When things get reduced to 72 dpi, the difference between the 4×5 scans and the images made with my […]

Lafayette Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Beekman Tower seen from Water Street — © Brian Rose The Lower Manhattan skyline lost a great deal of its iconic power when the Twin Towers, soaring above everything else, were destroyed in 2001. Even before that, the slender early to mid 20th century towers were robbed of their elegance by bulky monoliths closing off […]

Unter den Linden (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose This is a 4×5 scan of an image seen previously. The grassy field is the site of the former Palast der Republik, East German government/cultural center. And before that, it was the site of the 18th century Stadtschloss, seen printed on fabric in the rear. The […]

Near the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Novevember 9, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall. This was as close as I got to the ceremony at the Brandenburg Gate. I stood for an hour in a cold steady rain with my view camera, managing to take two photographs. […]

The Brandenburg Gate (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Wilhelmstrasse (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Continuing with 4×5 film images from the week of the 50th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Both of these were seen earlier in digital camera versions. The two pictures above key on what has become the […]

E82nd Street — © Brian Rose No. Bring them home.

Metropolitan Museum, Diana in the American Wing — © Brian Rose Presided over by Diana, the former weather vane atop Madison Square Garden, by Saint-Gaudens, the renovated Engelhard Court of the Metropolitan Museum is a bustling atrium of fleshy marble and bronze unabashed in the presence of families with frolicking children and everyone snapping pictures […]

Frank Tedesso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art — © Brian Rose After leaving (staggering out of) “Looking in: Robert Frank’s The Americans” at the Met, I stood for a moment by a Rodin statue pondering the exhibition–another photography exhibition where no photography was allowed. Robert Frank’s pictures were a searing burn of visual truth […]

Blossfeldt photos– © Brian Rose A short trip out of the city to Wilton, Connecticut. Thanksgiving pies and a grid of Karl Blossfeldt photographs.

Potsdamer Platz (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Three images not shown earlier when blogging from Berlin. This one made at Potsdamer Platz, a TV boom and control booth, an image of joyous Germans climbing on the Wall in 1989, and trompe l’oeil buildings and scaffolding ads behind on adjacent Leipziger Platz. Checkpoint Charlie (4×5 […]

Berlin Wall dominos, Ebertstrasse (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Continuing to scan and work on my recent Berlin images. Similar to the digital view in an earlier post, this one features the man at right, who connects visually across the frame to the face of Stalin on the left. These cloudy sky pictures take […]

Potsdamer Platz (4×5 film)– © Brian Rose The first of the 4×5 film scanned. Compare to earlier digital snapshot below. The day before the dominos were toppled thousands of people walked between Potsdamer Platz and the Brandenburg Gate. I was excited to be there, but a bit put off by the commercial nature of things–including […]

Holocaust Resource Center & Archives, Queensborough Community College© Brian Rose Back into my architectural photography work, this is an extraordinary project I photographed shortly before my trip to Berlin. The design is by Charles Thanhauser of TEK Architects in New York. I’ll post more pictures later, and do a portfolio page for my website. Here […]

Berlin under the S-Bahn — © Brian Rose Bang Bang Club or Bang Bang Club. I’m back in New York, and just picked up my Berlin film today.

Neues Museum Colonnade — © Brian Rose Neues Museum colonnade, 1987 (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Having run out of 4×5 film I took it easy on Friday. I hoped to see the Neues Museum, which has been restored with modern insertions by David Chipperfield, but the lines to purchase timed tickets for later […]

East Side Gallery — © Brian Rose The East Side Gallery is the longest stretch of Berlin Wall still standing–its survival due to the murals that were done on it just after the Wall was opened. Over the years the paintings deteriorated, and there was talk of removing the whole thing. Fortunately, the murals are […]