{"id":7235,"date":"2017-07-13T23:11:55","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T03:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=7235"},"modified":"2017-07-13T23:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T03:17:42","slug":"new-york1977-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/new-york1977-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/1977"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/a>Madison Avenue and 41st Street, 1977 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

A story I’ve told many times — 40 years ago, today, i arrived in New York and found an apartment on East 4th Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue. At 9:34PM the lights went out, and I spent the night in Penn Station unable to get my train back down to Washington, D.C. where I \u00a0was living at the time. It was eerie in the station, but there were cops around, and I was unaware of the riots and fires raging elsewhere. A few days later I was back to this scarred and battered city with my stuff, mostly clothes, a guitar, and photography materials.<\/p>\n

I set up a darkroom in the bedroom of my tiny apartment, and that summer began roaming the street with a 35mm Nikkormat, mostly shooting Tri-X film.I didn’t print much of it, however, because I had already begun working in color, and I soon left black and white photography behind for good. This is the second installment of scans made from that work — most of it from 1977 and 1978. As I said in an earlier blog post, I do not remember taking any of these pictures. It’s like discovering an unknown self intently searching for a style, for a formal approach, for a subject, which to a great extent turned out to be New York City.<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Lexington Avenue Line, 1977 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>Unknown location, 1977 — \u00a9\u02d9Brian Rose<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>East 43rd Street across from the United Nations, 1977 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

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\n<\/a>158th Street, The Bronx, Yankee Stadium, 1977 — \u00a9 Brian Rose<\/p>\n

1977 — it was the summer of Son of Sam the serial killer, the Bronx was burning, and the Yankees won the World Series. It was my entree to a city that would become central to my life and career. In that first year or two I attended Cooper Union, wrote songs and hung out in clubs with my friends, met my musical comrades in arms, Jack Hardy and Suzanne Vega, and took a lot of photographs. In 1980 I teamed up with Ed Fausty to photograph the Lower East Side in color using a 4×5 view camera. It was an exciting time — though wistful nostalgia is tempered by the fact — which I have not forgotten — that it was also a difficult time, financially and emotionally.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned for more pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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