[1] Brodsky was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Syracuse University in 1960.
While working at a camera store in Brooklyn, he began a side career of photography and opened his own studio in 1964.
[2] Later Brodsky left the rock 'n' roll photography and focused on commercial work, shooting advertising campaigns for Revlon, Avon, DuPont and other companies.
[3] Since the beginning of the new century, there has been a worldwide revival of interest in Brodsky's rock 'n' roll pictures, with several exhibitions across the USA and in Europe.
[2] His artwork has been shown by the Govinda Gallery in Washington, DC [1], the Morrison Hotel Gallery [2] Archived August 19, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, the Stax Museum in Memphis,[4] San Francisco Art Exchange [3] and the Snap Galleries in London, UK [4] Archived March 29, 2016, at the Wayback Machine.