Photo by Rodger Kingston A repeat from over a year ago, but an appropriate one. A terrific photograph by my friend Rodger Kingston. Historic day.

The Whitney Museum (digital) © Brian Rose Neither the Guggenheim nor the Whitney allow photography in their galleries, which makes it difficult for me to review shows in the way I would like to. I’ve said it before, and will repeat–this does not help the museums or the artists being exhibited. It stifles free speech […]

Photo by Antonin Kratochvil Last night I went to the Czech Center to see my friend David Hrbek from the Czech Republic. He was leading a panel discussion–much as he does back home–with three distinguished Czech photographers: Antonin Kratochvil, Vladimír Birgus, and Jindřich Štreit. Kratochvil is the one of the three I had heard of, […]

Central Park (digital) © Brian Rose Without comment.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, behind a building on Metropolitan Avenue (digital) © Brian Rose We live in ugly times. I woke up this morning and looked out our window in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A swastika had been drawn in the parking lot behind a newly completed, but unoccupied, apartment building. I know that this building, and the construction […]

The Guggenheim Museum, Marquee by Philippe Parreno© Brian Rose I went to the Guggenheim and Whitney museums to see a couple of photo exhibits–Catharine Opie and Williams Eggleston. The Opie work was relatively unknown to me, and I wanted to see what or why she was given a large retrospective at the Guggenheim. Her career […]

Bedford Avenue and N 7th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (digital)© Brian Rose Cold and clear.

The Guggenheim Museum (digital) © Brian Rose Went to see the disjointed mid-career retrospective of Catherine Opie at the Guggenheim. More on that later. Can’t help but say it, but the building upstages everything in it.

Richmond, Virginia, 1977 (35mm) © Brian Rose It’s the end of 2008, and the calamitous Bush reign comes down to its final days. The economy–capitalism itself–lies broken, while almost 150,000 American soldiers remain in Iraq. I look to 2009 with trepidation, but with measured hope, that all is not lost, as a new president comes […]

Amsterdam, 2000 (digital) © Brian Rose A holiday interlude. Picture taken in the courtyard when we lived in the Jordaan, a neighborhood in central Amsterdam.

The South Bronx, 1980, 35mm slide, © Brian Rose I’ve been up to the Bronx a number of times in the past year shooting some new buildings for an architecture client. For anyone old enough to remember the devastation of the 1980s, the rebuilding that has taken place in the South Bronx in recent years […]

Washington, D.C., 1977, 35mm slide© Brian Rose The other day I went to Fotocare on 22nd Street to buy some 4×5 film–Readyload Portra VC 160 to be exact. These are pre-loaded packs that do not require individual holders, a pricey convenience, but a great saving in weight, bulk, and time. Although I had just bought […]

Wilmington, Delaware, 1978, 35mm slide© Brian Rose Continuing going through my slides from 1975 to 1980. I was looking at a lot of painting as well as photography during those years, and I was thinking about how far you could reduce down an image and have it still be about real things and real space. […]

Richmond, Virginia, circa 1975, 35mm Ektachrome I’ve been looking back at my early color images made mostly on 35mm slide film. Although I was vaguely aware of work being done by Eggleston and a few others, I was pretty much making things up as I went along. This picture was made in Richmond, Virginia in […]

This blog has been a little quiet lately, but I’ve been busy with a few photo shoots, reorganizing my studio, and meeting with people about the Lower East Side project. It’s too early to say anything specific, but there is reason to be hopeful that there will be a major exhibition of the LES pictures […]

Rodger Kingston nails a door (digital) A while back, when the weather was still warm, I was paid a visit by Rodger Kingston down from the Boston area. Rodger and I met online–somehow that doesn’t sound right–and have been corresponding regularly. We spent a few hours walking around the Lower East Side, and Rodger snapped […]

Brendan and Renée at the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, May 13, 2001 (© Brian Rose) Taj Hotel, November 28, 2008 (David Guttenfelder/AP) Without comment.

The Bronx Shooting this morning on a rooftop in the Bronx. Photo by my assistant Chris Gallagher.