{"id":7205,"date":"2017-06-22T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T04:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2017-06-22T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T04:22:21","slug":"new-yorkblack-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/new-yorkblack-white\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEast 14th Street, 1977 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

Going through some boxes yesterday, I began looking at my early black and white negatives.<\/p>\n

During the 1970s I shot dozens of rolls of film, Kodak Trii-x and Plus-x, along with dozens of rolls of Kodachrome and Ektachrome color slide film. Most of the black and white has never been printed, or even contacted. I didn’t have the time, and I was moving quickly from one thing to the next.<\/p>\n

So, I scanned eight strips of black and white film — a small sample of negatives — and well, I’m kind of stunned. I literally can’t remember taking any of these pictures. It’s like discovering my alter-ego out on the street in New York, a young photographer fully engaged in making images, densely composed fragments of a now distant past.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Unknown location in New York, 1977 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

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\nUnknown location in New York, 1977 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

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\nUnknown location in New York, 1977 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

A photograph of nothing and\/or everything. A nondescript location in some far flung part of the city, a precise balance of interlocking elements welded together at the center of the image, a face staring out from a cigarette ad, two cobra style lampposts acting as quotation marks.<\/p>\n

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\nFifth Avenue and 53rd Street, 1977 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

Similar vertical elements dividing the frame, foreground and background brought together in an overall, highly activated composition. I remember now, the way I thought about things back then. I wasn’t interested in one area of focus, or one subject of interest. I wanted everything treated equally across the field of view.<\/p>\n

I’ll scan more images as time permits going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

East 14th Street, 1977 — \u00a9 Brian Rose Going through some boxes yesterday, I began looking at my early black and white negatives. During the 1970s I shot dozens of rolls of film, Kodak Trii-x and Plus-x, along with dozens of rolls of Kodachrome and Ektachrome color slide film. Most of the black and white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7214,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/7214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}