[WARSAW - boy with basket - posed photograph]. [ca. 1880]. Photograph form. 14,4x10,...

[WARSAW - boy with basket - posed photograph]. [ca. 1880]. Photograph form. 14.4x10.1 cm on original base form. 16.4x10.8 cm, by Konrad Brandl in Warsaw.
"One of the portraits of 'Warsaw street types'. Brandel photographed in his atelier inhabitants doing various professions: watchman, postman, messenger, coachman or earning money on the street as a caterer, vendor or peddler" (after D. Jackiewicz "Photographers of Warsaw Konrad Brandel 1838-1920", p. 80). Print on the lower margin of the backing: "Brandel Warsaw". Photo pasted on original cardboard backing. On the back an advertising vignette of the establishment printed: "Brandel Warsaw Nowy Świat 59". Rubbing and minor stains, overall good condition.
K. Brandel (1838-1920) - one of the pioneers of Polish photography, artist photographer, constructor, inventor, chronicler of Warsaw. Co-worker of K. Beyer. In 1865 he opened his own establishment on Nowy Swiat in Warsaw, which produced, among other things, many views of the city, portraits of famous and less famous people, as well as reproductions of works of art. In 1884 he constructed a snapshot camera, the so-called photorevolver - one of the first cameras to take reportage photographs. The use of the invention enabled the artist to photograph the daily life of the capital and its architectural features. Many of these photographs were published in the press of the time (Brandel worked with the "Illustrated Weekly").