Boy and Dog, Iron Pier, Coney Island, Brooklyn

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George Brainerd, a lifelong Brooklynite, produced a total of 2,500 photographs before his early death at age 42 in 1887. The majority of these were images of Brooklyn, a vast documentation of the urban landscape\u2014dams and mills, bridges and train depots, engine houses and pumping stations\u2014but also, especially after 1880, images of city dwellers and street scenes. This photograph, from about 1885, shows Brainerd\u2019s attention to composition and captures the leisurely atmosphere at Coney Island, the playful tug-of-war between boy and dog contrasting with the more languid manner of the surrounding bathers.



Independently wealthy and the Deputy Water Purveyor for the City of Brooklyn, Brainerd was an advanced amateur photographer adept at exploring new techniques. His legacy remains in the Brooklyn Museum; about 1,900 of his glass plate negatives make up a large portion of the Museum\u2019s huge collection of Brooklyn- and New York\u2212themed glass plate negatives. Images such as this one were later printed from those negatives, which are often exceptionally detailed and subtle in tone.

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