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Miss Rosen

Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer focusing on art, photography, and culture. Her work has been published in books and magazines, including Time, Vogue, Aperture, and Vice, among others.

Liza - opening act © Jean-luce Huré - Courtesy of Bridgeman Images

Scenes From the 1973 Battle of Versailles

November 28, 2024

© Guy Bourdin

Shoes, Sex & Surrealism: Guy Bourdin’s Legendary 1970s Fashion Photography

November 13, 2024

© James and Karla Murray

A Toast to New York’s Legendary Watering Holes

October 2, 2024

Gregory Crewdson, Untitled, From the series:Twilight, 1998-2002. Digital pigment print.The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna, Permanent loan –Private Collection © Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson’s First Career Retrospective

August 29, 2024

McCartney, Self-portrait, London, 1963-4

Paul McCartney’s Dazzling Portrait of Beatlemania

June 26, 2024

Keary Hines, Prairie View, Texas. © Ivan McClellan

Celebrating America’s Legendary Black Rodeo Community

June 19, 2024

Better Living Catalog © Pippa Garner

A 1980s Guide to Consumerism Run Amok

May 23, 2024

White Fence © Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide’s Luminous Portrait of Chicano Los Angeles

May 21, 2024

© Sandra Cattaneo Adorno, Ten Years (European Cultural Center/Radius Books)

Sparkle Like Gold: Mystical Scenes of Daily Life Around the Globe

April 23, 2024

A Love Letter to New York’s Mom & Pop Shops

April 15, 2024

Revisiting San Francisco’s Radical Queer Scene of the 90s

March 8, 2024

When Hair Metal Ruled: The Unsung 80s Bands That Redefined Cool

January 29, 2024

Rage Against the Machine: Tish Murtha’s Portrait of English Working Class

January 24, 2024

Awol Erizku, Ruth E. Carter’s costume design, featuring a pair of Nike Air Revolutions like the ones worn by Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing; purses and starburst earrings for Coretta Scott King, in Selma; and Tina Turner’s pumps, from What’s Love Got to Do with It. New Yorker, 2018; from Awol Erizku: Mystic Parallax (Aperture, 2023). Courtesy the artist

Awol Erizku’s Exquisite Remix of Black Visual Culture

January 23, 2024

Lords of the Underground, an underrated trio that made some great music, in Newark, New Jersey. Left to right: Mr. Funke, DoItAll, DJ Lord Jazz.

The 90s Artists Who Transformed Hip Hop

January 22, 2024

Corita Kent, The Pop Art Nun

January 17, 2024

© Nick Waplington. Untitlled. Living Room, 1986-90 (pages 38-39)

Life Without Filter by Nick Waplington

January 15, 2024

Dennis Brown (veste blanche) avec son fils Daniel Brown, Vivian Jones avec le chapeau blanc et Mike Brooks devant les Hive Recording Studios, à Stoke Newington, Londres, le 24 février 1985.

Documenting the UK Reggae Scene in the 1980s & 90s

January 2, 2024

Andre D. Wagner’s Poetic Scenes of New York

December 11, 2023

Lou Reed, Alien, 1974 © Dustin Pittman

The Gritty Glamour of Dustin Pittman

December 5, 2023

Willie Christie: Fashion & Fantasy

November 28, 2023

Los Angeles 2016 © Miron Zownir

An Unsparing Look at the Brutality of Fascism

November 27, 2023

Larry Fink’s Penetrating Portrait of Class in America

Larry Fink, Photographer of the American Society, Dies at 82

November 26, 2023

Fashion Shoot, Brixton Market, London, 1973. © Armet Francis, Courtesy the artist and Autograph, London. Supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund

“The Black Triangle” of Armet Francis

November 23, 2023

The Invisible Man With a Camera in Hand

October 17, 2023

Photogramme gélatino-argentique orotone © Zana Briski/Avec l'aimable autorisation d'Edwynn Houk

Zana Briski’s Intimate Encounters in the Wild

September 28, 2023

© Madame Yevonde

“Be Original or Die”: The Radical Art of Madame Yevonde

September 27, 2023

Bar et restaurant turc Cascade

Hustling Polaroids in Amsterdam’s Red Light District

September 26, 2023

Allen Ginsberg Snapped by W.S. Burroughs, 206 East 7th Street Rooftop, Fall, 1953 © Allen Ginsberg, courtesy of Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles

Allen Ginsberg’s Lifelong Love Affair with the Muse

September 15, 2023

Richard Avedon’s Trailblazing Portrait of the American West

September 1, 2023

Artiste de cirque © Andy Summers

The Rock Star Who Toured the World Camera in Hand

August 16, 2023

Daniel Brown, Collection du studio Holsinger. © Bibliothèque des collections spéciales Albert et Shirley Small, Université de Virginie.

African American Life by Rufus Holsinger

August 14, 2023

© 2022 by Lola Flash, Believable by Lola Flash is Published by The New Press

How Lola Flash Transformed the Language of Sexuality, Race and Gender

August 11, 2023

Unknown American. Susanna at Casa Susanna, gelatin silver print, 1964-1969. Collection Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Purchase, with funds generously donated by Martha LA McCain, 2015. Photo © AGO.

Inside Casa Susanna

July 12, 2023

Gregory Crewdson. Woman at Sink, Cathedral of the Pines series, digital pigment print, 2014. Courtesy of the artist.

Gregory Crewdson: Quiet Desperation

July 11, 2023

Lost Photos from the 1971 Glastonbury Festival

June 22, 2023

Locals Only © Hugh Holland

LA’s Legendary ‘70s Skate Scene

June 14, 2023

Newspaper, Artist Unknown, Courtesy of Primary Information.

Revisiting Peter Hujar’s Underground “Newspaper”

June 12, 2023

June Afternoon, 1980 © Stanley Stellar

New York: Queer Love on the West Side Piers

June 8, 2023

© Jessica Lange

Jessica Lange: Alone in the City

May 17, 2023

Andy Warhol, New York, with Liz Taylor’s portrait in Fred Hughes’ red studio, 1986. © Muna Tseng Dance Projects Inc, courtesy of Yancey Richardson Gallery

Tseng Kwong Chi’s Iconic Portraits of Art Stars

May 10, 2023

The Drawer © Vince Aletti

Vince Aletti on the Transformative Power of the Printed Image

April 28, 2023

Questlove, New York, New York, 2011 © Anthony Barboza

In the Eyes of Anthony Barboza

April 13, 2023

Artworks by John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres, 42nd Street Art Project with Creative Time, 1993.

The People of the South Bronx

April 5, 2023

Brigitte Lacombe, Patti Smith, New York, NY, 2014. © Brigitte Lacombe

The Transformative Power of Portrait

April 3, 2023