He taught at schools including the Yale University School of Art and the Parsons School of Design. He was on the faculty of Bard College for several years.
In 1978 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Photography Fellowship.
He was a photographer who worked in black-and-white and documented working-class people as well as the elites of Manhattan and Hollywood.
In 1979 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Taught at the Yale University School of Art (1977-1978), Cooper Union School of Art and Architecture (1978-1983), Parsons School of Design and New York University.