Hartford Seen. Pablo Delano
HARTFORD SEEN
New Park Avenue, 2013
HARTFORD SEEN
Pablo Delano
Introduction by Laura Wexler
Essay by Guillermo B. Irizarry
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Middletown, Connecticut
This book is dedicated with love and respect to Hartford’s
greatest “Picture-Takin’ Man,” Juan Fuentes Vizcarrondo.
Wesleyan University Press
Middletown CT 06459
© 2020 Pablo Delano
Introduction: Split City © Laura Wexler
Hartford Unseen © Guillermo B. Irizarry
All rights reserved
Printed in China
Designed by Karla Pámanes / CO:LAB Typeset in Univers
This book is part of HartfordBooks, a series developed through a partnership of Wesleyan University Press and the University of Hartford, and supported by the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. wesleyan.edu/wespress/hartfordbooks
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Delano, Pablo, author.
Title: Hartford seen / Pablo Delano ; introduction by Laura Wexler ; essay by Guillermo B. Irizarry.
Description: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2020] | Series: Hartfordbooks | Summary: “Photographs and accompanying essays capture the complex layering of culture and history in Connecticut’s urban capitol”— Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019042790 (print) | LCCN 2019042791 (ebook) | ISBN 9780819579256 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9780819579263 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Photography—Connecticut—Hartford. | Hartford (Conn.)—Pictorial works.
Classification: LCC TR25.H37 D45 2020 (print) | LCC TR25.H37 (ebook) | DDC 770.9746/3—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019042790
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019042791
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Cover photo: Broad Street, 2013
Front cover photograph by Pablo Delano.
HartfordBooks
HartfordBooks is a book series that seeks to rediscover Hartford’s philosophies, people large and small, history, and culture. The series is supported by the University of Hartford, Wesleyan University Press, and the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
CONTENTS IN CONTEXT
by Laura Wexler
by Guillermo B. Irizarry
Capen Street, 2013
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Why photograph Hartford? I might answer, “Because it’s there,” but Hartford isn’t Mount Everest. Or I could reference Gary Winogrand and say I photograph the city to see what it looks like photographed. Thankfully, my collaborators in this volume do a wonderful job of contextualizing and making sense of these pictures. I am grateful to Guillermo Irizarry and Laura Wexler for their thoughtful words, and to Rich Hollant and Karla Pámanes at CO:LAB for a book design that echoes the spirit of the photographs.
Rena Fraden, then dean of the faculty at Trinity College, embraced the project early on and was the first to suggest the possibility of turning this collection of photographs into a book. I am indebted to Susan D. Pennybacker, currently Chalmers W. Poston Distinguished Professor of European History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and former director of Trinity College’s Hartford Studies Program,