David Goldblatt exhibition at the New Museum — © Brian RoseAfter seeing the David Goldblatt show (Intersections Intersected) at the New Museum a couple of weeks ago, I struggled with a response. Despite the fact that his work is widely known, his photographs of apartheid era South Africa and its subsequent aftermath had never made […]

Greenwich Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Renee and Brendan, JFK Airport — © Brian Rose Brendan comes home after a month in the Netherlands.

Below are 4×5 film versions of two previously posted images. The first shows the ongoing construction/destruction of the Bowery. The second shows the Cooper Square Hotel and Cooper Union building where the Bowery turns into Third Avenue above E4th Street. The Bowery between Houston and Stanton Street (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose Third Avenue […]

WTC memorial at KeySpan Park in Coney Island — © Brian Rose Got invited to a minor league baseball game–the Brooklyn Cyclones–who play at KeySpan Park located near the boardwalk, just beneath the landmarked parachute jump, with the Cyclone roller coaster visible beyond the scoreboard in left field. KeySpan Park, Coney Island — © Brian […]

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey(4×5 film) — © Brian Rose An outtake from my recent architectural shoot in Trenton. After completing a series of interiors, I wandered around the back of the museum to the loading dock and parking lot. A row of stone columns were lined up on against the building. The […]

Summer reading, Photography After Frank, by Philip Gefter — © Brian Rose ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, […]

Houston and Lafayette Streets — © Brian Rose Sometimes it seems like half he pictures on this blog are from Houston Street, especially the area between Broadway and Lafayette Street. It’s just that I’m there all the time coming and going, heading for the subway, walking across town, whatever. There’s been construction going on for […]

The Bowery and Bond/E2nd Street — © Brian Rose Three views of the radically changed north end of the Bowery/Third Avenue. These are from my Sigma DP1, but I did similar images with the 4×5 view camera. Third Avenue and E5th Street — © Brian Rose Third Avenue and E7th Street — © Brian Rose […]

Delancey and Clinton Streets, The Lower East Side — © Brian Rose Without comment.

New Museum roof deck — © Brian Rose I went to the New Museum today to see the David Goldblatt exhibition–photographs of South Africa taken over a long period of time. I will write something about the show once i’ve had a chance to digest.

Falling Soldier — Robert Capa I have always found something dubious about Robert Capa’s famous photograph of the falling soldier–it seemed like a Hollywood depiction of a man being blown off his feet by a bullet. Minus the squib. Where did the soldier get hit anyway? Can’t tell from the photograph. Now, a researcher, José […]

New Jersey State Museum — © Brian Rose Last week I took the train down to Trenton, capital of New Jersey, a once vibrant industrial city on the Delaware River. I’d been to the city a few times–I photographed the New Jersey Statehouse some years back, and I photographed a new minor league baseball stadium–even […]

E12th Street — © Brian Rose While shooting an architectural assignment. Near Penn Station — © Brian Rose On my way to Trenton–pictures to come.

Near Penn Station — © Brian Rose On my way to Trenton to scout a building.

Queensborough Community College, Holocaust Research Center — © Brian Rose Assignment work: In the past few weeks I’ve photographed an apartment building in Brooklyn, a residential interior in the same building, an NYU dormitory, an office in the Empire State Building, a residence for mentally disabled in the Bronx, a holocaust research center in Queens, […]

Sunnyside Yards, Queens — © Brian Rose I’ve been busy lately. A number of assignments after a barren winter and spring. I get an email from the publisher of the Lost Border–this has been a particularly brutal year for the bookselling and publishing industries… Basically they are telling me that my book is being remaindered–conveniently […]

Action Car Rental — © Brian Rose Without comment.