West Side Highway artifacts — © Brian Rose Stan B. in his comment to the last post mentions the “post apocalyptic piece of concrete” that stood abandoned for years on the west side of Manhattan. Inexplicably, despite all the fixing up and covering up of New York’s industrial past, a couple of art deco slabs […]

Canal Street — © Brian Rose I was down on Canal the other day taking pictures of what is sometimes called the printing district, now updated to real estate friendly Hudson Square. Canal Street remains a tumultuous strip of cut-rate hardware, electronics, and jewelry shops, but some of its rough edges have been smoothed, as […]

The Bowery — © Brian Rose The rapidly changing scene on the Bowery between Houston and Stanton Streets.

Berlin: In From the Cold (click for book website) This November being the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall, I have put together a new book focused exclusively on my pictures of Berlin. My earlier book, The Lost Border, included many photographs of the Wall, but its focus was not primarily on […]

Some people fall through the cracks–maybe lots of people fall through the cracks. It’s a fact that there are many extraordinary artists and musicians afoot who have not received the attention or accolades they deserve. I know a number of such people who remain neglected, but quite vital and alive, outside the gated community of […]

Julius Shulman photographing Case Study house #22 by Pierre Koenig One of the pioneers in the field of architectural photography, Julius Shulman has died at 98. There are many things that make his work significant–enough for a lengthy essay–but for me, it was the idea of architectural photography as a staged event. The end result […]

A couple of months ago I put up some pictures of pickup basketball made with my digital camera–experimenting with the idea of of photographing in between moments of the game–for instance, when the ball is on the rim, and the players are jockeying for position or blocking out for a rebound. Rather than work with […]

The last of my pictures from our recent trip to Westbrook on the Long Island Sound. The beach is lined with houses, some old traditional shingle style, and others verging on suburban McMansion style. I took several walks through the streets with my digital camera. Here’s my mini-series:

Westbrook, Connecticut — © Brian Rose Visual note taking while vacationing on the Long Island Sound. Back in the city with lots to do after a sparse winter and spring.

A Taste of Holland, South Norwalk, Connecticut© Brian Rose Killing some time waiting for the train back to New York, we discovered the shop pictured above, which specializes in all things Dutch, especially food items like licorice (drop) and cheese (kaas). It also flogs the usual Dutch cliches such as windmills, wooden shoes, Delft Blue, […]

Self-portrait in a convex mirror — © Brian Rose A few days out of the city on the Long Island Sound.

Greenpoint, Brooklyn — © Brian Rose “I love New York more than ever.”

Roof party in Brooklyn — © Brian Rose Did another round of pick up basketball pictures at some courts in Chinatown. Early in the evening a fierce, but brief, thunderstorm passed through leaving the air fresh and cool. Roof party in Brooklyn was interrupted, but resumed under a brilliant rainbow. This morning I got out […]

Southern Boulevard, the Bronx — © Brian Rose I went up to the Bronx yesterday to scout a building for a client. It’s going to be tricky photographing it because it stands adjacent to an elevated subway line. The number 2 and 5 trains run along here, which in the ’70s and ’80s, was the […]

Times Square — © Brian Rose Broadway closed to traffic in Times Square. Lawn chair city.

WTC/Ground Zero — © Brian Rose Cooper Square/East 4th Street — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Kids on the High Line — © Brian Rose Without comment.

Dutch Seen, the Museum of the City of New York — © Brian Rose The more I’ve thought about the Dutch Seen exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York, the more I’ve come to the conclusion that the city–the ostensible subject of the exhibit–is largely invisible. Yes, sure, there’s some street photography, […]