Hall of Fame for Great Americans, side view, University Heights — © Brian Rose I‘ve seen a lot of the Bronx over the years. It’s a much maligned borough of New York that contains some of the city’s great institutions — the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, Fordham University, and the Yankees, no […]

SUPPORT ATLANTIC CITY ON KICKSTARTER My photobook, Atlantic City, will also include text mostly in the form of news quotes and tweets from Donald Trump. True to form, Trump does not admit to any responsibility for Atlantic City. Made a lot of money, got out, good timing, no one gives him credit. Losers. Haters. Sad. […]

This is my Atlantic City Kickstarter video made with help from my son, Brendan Rose. it starts in front of the abandoned Trump Plaza next to historic Boardwalk Hall on the left. My campaign is off to a good start. It might quiet down over the 4th of July holiday, but this is a good […]

My Kickstarter campaign to support Atlantic City has been launched!  ATLANTIC CITY — A PHOTO BOOK PROJECT When Donald Trump was elected in November 2016, I knew immediately that I needed to do something as an artist and photographer. My work has always focused on the urban/social landscape, but I’ve generally avoided politics. Trump’s election, […]

From West 40th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues — © Brian Rose New York used to look like this — and still does. The Garment District. It’s hard to see in a web-sized jpeg, but there are about 50 water towers in this shot.

We drove down to Atlantic City today to work on the video for my soon to be launched Kickstarter campaign to raise money for my upcoming book. It was a little damp, a little foggy, with few people on the beach. Even the boardwalk was relatively sparse for a summer day. I worked from a […]

Circa Press catalogue pages — click to enlarge Catalogue page for Atlantic City which will be published by Circa Press, a London based publisher of exceptional books about art and design. Circa was founded by David Jenkins, the former chief editor of Phaidon, and the introduction for Atlantic City is being written by Paul Goldberger, […]

Major announcement! I am pleased to report that my photographs of Atlantic City have found a publisher, Circa Press, of London, and that the book will be released early in 2019. The project is well underway and we are working on the design of the book now. This will be my fourth book in eight […]

Paul Fusco’s photographs made from the RFK funeral train are a remarkable portrait of America in 1968, one of the most tempestuous years in modern American history. There were assassinations, riots, and the war in Vietnam. For a few hours in June, people stood silently, reverently, to pay their respects as the cortege train rolled […]

Vancouver — © Brian Rose Long live Canada!

Avenue A and East 9th Street — © Brian Rose Street as theater. First Avenue subway station — © Brian Rose Dog in a bag.

The Glass House, New Canaan, Connecticut — © Brian Rose Yesterday, I toured the Philip Johnson Glass House with Cooper Union alumni. It rained the entire time we were there, but the atmosphere was beautiful, drenched in the vibrant green of early Spring. In the various structures on the estate, one can trace Johnson’s chameleon-like […]

Pacific Avenue, Atlantic City — © Brian Rose A little piece of pre-casino Atlantic City on Pacific Avenue. I found myself talking to an older man coming out of a convenience store. I told him what I was doing — about how I was photographing the city and the legacy of failure left by Donald […]

Kentucky Avenue, Atlantic City — © Brian Rose Lucky Seven National Spa. Open 24 Hours.

Showboat Hotel — © Brian Rose Standing on the boardwalk looking inland — if you leave things vacant long enough in Atlantic City it will revert back to the sandbar that it naturally is. I assume that this block long party wall was meant to abut another casino hotel. But this being Atlantic City, windowless […]

Pacific Avenue, Atlantic City — © Brian Rose The Trump Taj Mahal (seen at right) has been stripped of its faux Indian/Arabian/Russian motifs, and new owner Hard Rock is in the process of installing its characteristic rock/guitar/burgers theme. Hard Rock, which was founded in in 1971 in London by a couple of Americans is now […]

Atlantic City — © Brian Rose Pauline’s Prairie During the mid to late 1960s, Atlantic City’s housing czar, Pauline Hill, dismantled an entire neighborhood to make way for commercial development. Eighty acres in the city’s South Inlet section were razed. Forty-five-hundred people were displaced. But development, in large part at least, never came. In the […]

Former Trump Taj Mahal — © Brian Rose The grand staircase to the Trumpian realm — now stripped of its onion domes and minarets. Atlantic City continues to bank on casinos as the way out of urban blight and crime. It hasn’t worked so far. Donald Trump wrote “The Art Of The Deal,” but it […]