When the Twin Towers Quietly Commanded the New York Skyline by Colin Moynihan
The photographer Brian Rose was in Amsterdam on September 11, 2001, when he learned, over the phone, that a plane had just flown into one of the Twin Towers. Within a few days, he was airborne himself, on one of the first flights permitted into New York City from Europe, feeling a sense of urgency and dread. Much of downtown had been cordoned off, but on the day that Rose returned he was able to walk down Broadway carrying a 4 x 5 camera. He stopped to take a handful of pictures on the edge of the zone that had been named Ground Zero.
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A 30-Year Time Lapse of the Lower East Side by Colin Moynihan
Toward the end of 1979, Brian Rose and Edward Fausty began roaming the Lower East Side of Manhattan with a Japanese view camera attached to a tripod. New York City’s fiscal crisis was a fresh memory, and gentrification had not yet arrived. Tenements seemed to burn daily. But the frontierlike nature of the neighborhood and the availability of cheap rent encouraged an explosion of creativity.
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The Meatpacking District's Amazing Transformation by Tom DiChristopher
Two years ago, photographer Brian Rose stumbled upon a collection of negatives he snapped nearly three decades earlier. They showed a bleak, desolate pocket of Manhattan — the Meatpacking District — by day. In the images, the droves of abattoir workers had packed it in for the day, having completed their morning butchery and its attendant packing and shipping.
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