Books: George Bradford Brainerd's Pioneering Pictures of New York City
Above: Brainerd’s 1878 image of a longshoreman on Brooklyn’s waterfront. Brooklyn Museum
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George Eastman has been called “the father of the snapshot” for bringing photography to the masses with his compact Kodak camera in 1888. But more than a decade earlier, a Connecticut-born inventor devised ingenious hand-held cameras that …