{"product_id":"candid-new-york-the-pioneering-photography-of-george-bradford-brainerd-9781493090549","title":"Candid New York: The Pioneering Photography of George Bradford Brainerd","description":"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 civil engineer with the Brooklyn water department, developed photographic plates with more sensitive film emulsions to freeze action which had previously been a blur. Brainerd used the new technology to document the colorful street types he saw as he went about his rounds--fruit peddlers, artisans, musicians, dock workers, newsboys, launderesses, and even beggars--laying the groundwork for photojournalists like Jacob Riis and Louis Hine. But in America in the early 1880s, when Brainerd was active, such documentary or \"street photography\" was unknown. \u003ci\u003eCandid New York \u003c\/i\u003eis the first published work on this pioneering American inventor, once hailed as the \"father of instantaneous photography.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik Hesselberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lyons Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.06h x 8.70w x 0.55d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781493090549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eNight Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815-1931\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003cb\u003eErik Hesselberg\u003c\/b\u003e has been writing about the Connecticut River for twenty years, first as an environmental reporter for the \u003ci\u003eMiddletown Press\u003c\/i\u003e and after as executive editor of \u003ci\u003eShore Line Newspapers\u003c\/i\u003e in Guilford, Connecticut, where he oversaw twenty weekly newspapers from Old Lyme to Stratford, Connecticut. 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 \u003ci\u003eWesleyan Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003ethe\u003ci\u003e Hartford Courant, Estuary Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e and on his blog, voicesontheriver.com. He lives in Haddam, Connecticut.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Erik Hesselberg \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47532341133469,"sku":"9781493090549","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_07b7e21a-70f6-4e2a-b9f3-ba6581b4ce23.jpg?v=1767682466","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/candid-new-york-the-pioneering-photography-of-george-bradford-brainerd-9781493090549","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}