Candid New York
the pioneering photography of george bradford brainerd
$83.52
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2025
Summary
Candid New York: Unveiling a Lost Pioneer of Street Photography
The American entrepreneur George Eastman has been called “the father of the snapshot,” bringing photography to the masses with his compact Kodak camera in 1888. But more than a decade earlier, a Connecticut-born inventor devised ingenious hand-held cameras, which he used to record daily life on the streets of New York.
As early as 1870, before dry plates were commercially available, George Bradford Brainerd, a c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781493090549 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1493090542 |
| Author: | Erik Hesselberg |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Imprint: | The Lyons Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 279mm x 216mm |
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About The Author
Erik Hesselberg
Erik Hesselberg, the author of Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815–1931, has been writing about the Connecticut River for twenty years, first as an environmental reporter for the Middletown Press, and later as executive editor of Shore Line Newspapers in Guilford, CT, where he oversaw twenty weekly newspapers from Old Lyme to Stratford, CT. He was president of the Middlesex County Historical Society and developed the award-winning exhibit “A Vanished Port,” on the Connecticut River’s ties to the slave economy of the Caribbean islands. His writings have appeared in Wesleyan Magazine, the Hartford Courant, and Estuary Magazine. He lives in Haddam, CT.
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