PDA

View Full Version : Time and Space on the Lower East Side



brosenyc
21-May-2012, 13:28
In 1980, Brian Rose, in collaboration with Ed Fausty, photographed the Lower East Side of Manhattan with a 4x5 view camera. It was the neighborhood’s darkest, but most creative moment. While buildings crumbled and burned, artists and musicians came to explore and express the edgy quality of the place.

After moving on to other projects and living overseas for 12 years, Rose was drawn back to New York as a subject for his camera. He began thinking about making a response to what had happened to the city in the years after 9/11, one that would take a longer view of the impact on New York and beyond. He decided to re-photograph the Lower East Side.

While keeping an eye on the earlier photographs done in 1980, Rose sought to rediscover the place with fresh eyes, with the perspective of time, change, and history. The result, Time and Space on the Lower East Side, is a set of photographs that looks backward and forward, that posits the idea that places are not simply “then and now,” but exist in a continuum of decay and rebirth.

http://www.brianrose.com/timeandspace.htm

Book Launch Celebration:

Wednesday, May 23, 6-8pm

Clic Bookstore and Gallery
255 Centre Street (at Broome)
New York City