Brian Rose portrait — photo by Marion Ettlinger Around 1992, I was recording songs for a possible album — Suzanne Vega was producing. We needed a portrait for PR. I wanted something strong, without artifice, something like a picture I had seen of one of my writer heroes Raymond Carver. So, we went to the […]

Atlantic City is complete. The pictures are sequenced, the quotes and comments finalized, and the essay by Paul Goldberger written. Trump, for all intents and purposes, milked Atlantic City, and left it even poorer and more troubled than he had found it. The dream that casino gambling would turn Atlantic City into Las Vegas was […]

Thoughts on hearing of the death of Robert Venturi. When I think about my early influences as a young photographer, I always return to the fact that I was an urban design major at the University of Virginia in the early ‘70s. I left the field to go to art school, but my path as […]

An interview I did with Hannah Frishberg of 6sqft, a website about New York City urbanism, real estate, and architecture. It focuses on Metamorphosis, my book about the Meatpacking District, includes comments about my Lower East Side and World Trade Center work, and touches on my recent photographs of Atlantic City. For those of you […]

Port Chester, New York — © Brian Rose Port Chester, New York — © Brian Rose Two pictures made 30 seconds apart.

East Williamsburg — © Brian Rose From a couple of recent walks. Zones of divergent purpose. East Williamsburg — © Brian Rose East Williamsburg — © Brian Rose East Williamsburg — © Brian Rose East Williamsburg — © Brian Rose

Ocracoke Island — © Brian Rose A few loose ends from the last day or two of our vacation to Ocracoke on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We walked to Springers Point, a nature preserve on the Pamlico Sound, and along the way we encountered the sign above. We did not see any slow […]

© Brian Rose From high up in the tower of the former life-saving station. Perfect weather, about 85 degrees with a steady breeze, which made the bug spray we had brought along unnecessary. The landscape in the abandoned village was part wild, part tended, with grassy pathways and wooden bridges between the various structures. We […]

© Brian Rose Portsmouth Island once had 500 inhabitants, but the village of Portsmouth was abandoned decades ago. The remaining buildings are maintained by the National Park Service along with miles of pristine beaches and wetlands. © Brian Rose © Brian Rose © Brian Rose © Brian Rose © Brian Rose

@Brian Rose  On vacation on Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. We took a boat trip across the inlet to Portsmouth island. Portsmouth was once an occupied village of 500 people, but life on a constantly shifting sandbar proved unsustainable. Today, there is a scattering of empty houses, a church, post office, […]

At Atlantic City Steel Pier — © Brian Rose Monday night I reached my goal, though you may have noticed it was a bit of a nail biter. Several pledges came in during the last couple of hours and I made it over. One large one came from an unknown pledger who has backed hundreds […]

Coming down to the last couple of days of my Atlantic City Kickstarter campaign, I came to the conclusion that I’d cajoled and pestered everyone pretty much to the limit, and it was time to let this thing ride out on its own. So, rather than sit staring at the Kickstarter campaign pledge graph on […]

Trump Plaza, Atlantic City — © Brian Rose Trump’s businesses in Atlantic City filed for bankruptcy five times. #1: The Trump Taj Mahal, 1991 #2: Trump Castle, 1992 #3: Trump Plaza and Casino, 1992 #4: Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts, 2004 #5: Trump Entertainment Resorts, 2009 Kickstarter campaign to publish Atlantic City. Pre-order here!

On the presidential campaign trail Trump boasted of his ‘success’ in Atlantic City, how he had outwitted Wall Street and leveraged his own name for riches. He would do for America what he had done for Atlantic City, he said. And so it came to be. Brian Rose has documented what remains of the city […]

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Self Portrait — © Brian Rose Self portrait in a convex mirror The time of day or the density of the light Adhering to the face keeps it Lively and intact in a recurring wave Of arrival. The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes – John Ashberry Please […]

Tech II (Meister Hall), The Bronx, designed by Marcel Breuer — © Brian Rose A little commentary on making a photograph. A few days ago, I wrote about visiting the Bronx Community College campus — originally New York University. In the ’60s the campus was transformed by Bauhaus trained architect Marcel Breuer. This amazing view […]

My wife and son survey building designed by Marcel Breuer — © Brian Rose Two weeks ago I visited Bronx Community College, originally the uptown campus of New York University. The main quad is anchored by a symmetrical grouping of neoclassical buildings by Stanford White, the designer of many New York buildings from the turn […]