Candid New York - The Pioneering Photography of George Bradford Brainerd

Candid New York is the first published work on the pioneering American inventor George Bradford Brainerd, once hailed as the "father of instantaneous photography," and includes 125 photographs Brainerd documented of daily life on the streets of New York City in the late nineteenth century, from musicians to dock workers to newsboys and even beggars.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Erik Hesselberg
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 07.10.2025
• EAN: 9781493090549
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-9054-9
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Places & peoples: general & pictorial works, Photography & photographs, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Street Photography, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Individual photographers, PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional