Candid New York

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ISBN: 9781493090549

The Pioneering Photography of George Bradford Brainerd

Erik Hesselberg

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The Lyons Press
07 October 2025

History of Art & Design Styles; Individual photographers; Places & peoples: pictorial works

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. Candid New York: The Pioneering Brooklyn Street Photography of George Bradford Brainerd is the first published work on this pioneering American inventor, once hailed as the “father of instantaneous photography.”

By: Erik Hesselberg
Imprint: The Lyons Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781493090549
ISBN 10: 1493090542
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 07 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The author of Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815–1931, Erik Hesselberg has been writing about the Connecticut River for twenty years, first as an environmental reporter for the Middletown Press, and after 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, Estuary Magazine, and on his blog, voicesontheriver.com. He lives in Haddam, CT.