Morgan Stanley • London trading floor (4×5 film)© Brian Rose Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, the last big independent investment banks on Wall Street, will transform themselves into bank holding companies subject to far greater regulation, the Federal Reserve said Sunday night, a move that fundamentally reshapes an era of high finance that defined the […]

Lower Manhattan (4×5 film)© Brian Rose Without comment.

Wall Street • 1981 (4×5 film)© Brian Rose Without comment.

The World Trade Center • 1982 (4×5 film) © Brian Rose In 1974 when the WTC was just being completed, Philippe Petit, a French street performer strung a cable between the Twin Towers and proceeded to tightrope walk back and forth 6 or 8 times. Thousands watched in amazement from below. Eventually he surrendered to […]

In 1975 when I first went to art school (MICA in Baltimore) I was shooting exclusively in black and white. It was understood implicitly that fine art photographs were monochromatic–color was National Geographic and cigarette ads. I’d been interested in color for a couple of years going back to a single roll of slide film […]

I’ve written already about the New York Waterfalls by Olafur Eliasson, which will be coming down soon after a summer of pumping water up and over their steel scaffolds. I’m not sure this was great success as public art, but it obviously was good for the city from a tourism point of view. The water […]

Delancey Street and Ludlow (digital)© Brian Rose As an architectural photographer, it is my job, to make buildings look good, and to elevate the work of the architect who designed them. That does not mean that I have to like everything I photograph. I understand better than most, how decent designs get crushed by value […]

Delancey Street (digital)© Brian Rose Without comment.

Wasilla, Alaska (from Flickr) President Palin–America’s mayor/commander-in-chief.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn© Brian Rose (digital) Without comment.

Cover of Lower East Side book proposal© Brian Rose/Ed Fausty, 1980 (4×5 film) As I posted recently I have created a book proposal for my Lower East Side project. I have barely begun showing the book dummy around, and it could take–who knows how long?–before something becomes of this. So, in the meantime, I have […]

Glienicke Bridge, Berlin • The site of many Cold War spy exchanges. • 1987© Brian Rose (4×5 film) It’s hard to believe that it has been almost 19 years since the opening of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. My photographs of the former Iron Curtain, while increasingly distant history, […]

The New Museum and scene along the Bowery (4×5 film montage) I’ve taken a few pictures that include the New Museum as part of my ongoing look at the Bowery at the Lower East Side. But this time I had a specific assignment to photograph the museum, especially as it relates to the immediate neighborhood. […]

The High Line (under construction) and Tenth AvenueIAC building by Frank Gehry at left© Brian Rose (digital) It amazes me how many people, even in New York, are unaware of the High Line, the former rail viaduct cutting through the west side of Manhattan from the West Village just below 14th Street up to 34th […]

Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge, and one of the waterfalls by Olafur Eliasson.© Brian Rose (digital) I’m shooting for a Dutch real estate client, looking at the Brooklyn waterfront, the High Line, and the New Museum/Bowery neighborhood. My assistant Chris and I spent a long fairly arduous day in Brooklyn and Manhattan finishing up at Fulton […]

Tekserve (digital)© Brian Rose Gurgling aquarium, mounted shark, wooden theater seats, kiddie ride, stressed out people. It has to be Tekserve, New York’s wild and wacky Macintosh repair shop. They sell stuff, too. It’s a pretty entertaining place, actually–especially when someone at the counter tells you that your laptop hard drive is dead and that […]

East Village protest, 1989, Q. Sakamaki I have to admit being astonished to see the New York Times run no fewer than eight photographs from Q. Sakamaki’s new book “Tompkins Square Park.” This is a book about the tumultuous period during the late ’80s and early ’90s in the East Village. The black and white […]

Williamsburg, Brooklyn From the Williamsburg Bridge. Williamsburg, Brooklyn Typical Williamsburg scene.