Hartford Seen

By Pablo Delano

Hartford Seen is the first modern-day art photography book to focus on Connecticut's capital. Comprising more than 150 full-color images, it has been in the making for two decades. In this personal meditation on the city's built environment, he implements a methodical but intuitive approach, using color and meticulous compositions to evoke the city's essence, particularly the way global population flows impact the city's physical structures. Hartford Seen is meant to be taken as a whole, as a visual document that can shed light on the unique characteristics of one city's past, present, and potential futures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Release date: Apr 7, 2020
• ISBN: 9780819579263

Pablo Delano

Pablo Delano is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Fine Arts at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Solo exhibitions of his photographs have been held in galleries and museums throughout the USA, Latin America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he has published several books of photography, including Faces of America and In Trinidad.

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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

www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

© 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

PP viii – ix

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PP x – xi

INTRODUCTION: Split City

by Laura Wexler

PP 001 – 007

ESSAY: Hartford Unseen

by Guillermo B. Irizarry

PP 008 – 031

PP 032 – 039

PP 040 – 067

PP 068 – 083

PP 084 – 095