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New York/Meatpacking District
Ninth Avenue and West 15th Street (4×5 film) — © Brian Rose My Meatpacking book is now in production, and I’m working with the same publishing team as the last time led by Bill Diodato. It will have 50...
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New York/Colorful Past
There’s been lots of discussion about whether Inside Llewyn Davis by the Coen brothers is an Oscar-worthy masterpiece or a dismal failure. Whatever the case, I’d like to briefly touch on the look of...
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New York/Meatpacking District
Metamorphosis, Meatpacking District 1985+2013 — © Brian Rose As I wrote earlier, my book about the Meatpacking District is well underway. Above is the cover featuring a photograph of Washington Street...
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New York/Kickstarter Campaign
Final Cover Design for Metamorphosis: Meatpacking District 1985 + 2013 Please help make this book a reality. In the winter of 1985 I spent several days wandering the streets of the Meatpacking District...
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New York/Good Start
Off to a good start in my Kickstarter campaign. Please help make this book a success. Here’s my video pitch made on the streets of the Meatpacking District: Bookmark It Hide Sites
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New York/Book Proofs
Cover mockup of Metamorphosis: Meatpacking District 1985 + 2013 At 65% of my Kickstarter goal with almost three weeks to go! Metamorphosis is no longer an abstraction. Yesterday, I saw the first proofs...
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New York/Goal Reached — Again
Metamorphosis: Meatpacking District 1985 + 2013, back cover image — © Brian Rose 1985 Reached my Kickstarter goal — again. Yesterday, I announced that I had succeeded in my fundraising goal, and began...
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New York/Bowery Boogie
An interview in the blog, Bowery Boogie. BB: What do you hope people will take away from Metamorphosis? BR: More than anything I hope that people will learn to see what is around them and in front of...
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New York/Kickstarter Success
The Kickstarter campaign for my Meatpacking book is now over with 163% of my goal reached. Now we can take that posh vacation in the Caribbean that we’ve been dreaming about all through this — barely...
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New York/Meatpacking District
An article in Société Perrier about my upcoming book Metamorphosis: Meatpacking District 1985 + 2013. Written by Jim Allen who is branching out a bit from his usual music beat. I approved the final...
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New York/Final Proofs
Metamorphosis F&Gs — © Brian Rose This is the last step. Up till now I’ve been looking at digital proofs, which give a rough idea of color and density. Yesterday, we received the F&Gs, folded...
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New York/The Book!
Finished book cover — © Brian Rose Have just received two copies of the completed book sent by FedEx from the printer in Hong Kong. The rest of the books are en route by ship, on schedule for an early...
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New York/Slide Talk
Sponsored by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. A slide talk and presentation of my book (shipment arriving any day now). I will, at the very least, have a copy or two at the...
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New York/Out with the Old, In with the New
It has been two years and one month since I released Time and Space on the Lower East Side. The trade edition of the book is now “sold out.” Approximately 1,000 copies sold. There are still a few...
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New York/No Such Thing As Was
An interview in Joe Bonomo’s blog No Such Thing As Was. I want to engage and provoke, but not preach. I want people to overlay their own mental maps of the city onto mine, and in the process look at...
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New York/Cooper Square
Cooper Square, New York — © Brian Rose As Cooper Square gets a makeover, and Cooper Union “reinvents” itself — students entering the school now pay tuition for the first time since 1859 — Peter Cooper...
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New York/Meatpacking District
Washington Street and W12th, 1985 — © Brian Rose After finishing up my Meatpacking book, Metamorphosis, I somehow discovered the negative for the image above in another mystery box in my archive, too...
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New York/Love Saves the Day
Love Saves the Day, Second Avenue and East 7th Street — © Brian Rose Here in the East Village we are in shock over the explosion and fire that have leveled three historic tenement buildings on Second...
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New York/Sixth Avenue
Sixth Avenue (Avenue of the Americas) and Spring Street — © Brian Rose Early morning, autumn sun — moving through a lattice of light and steel. Bookmark It Hide Sites
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New York/Frances Goldin
In the Shadow of the Highway: Robert Moses’ Expressway and the Battle for Downtown — © Brian Rose One of my Lower East Side photographs is part of an interesting exhibition about one of Robert Moses’...
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