- 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.
- Was on the faculty of Bard College since 1986.
- Studied at the New School for Social Research in New York City, where photographer Lisette Model was one of his teachers and encouraged his work.
- Best-known work is Social Graces, a series of photographs he produced in the 1970s that depicted and contrasted wealthy Manhattanites at fashionable clubs and social events alongside working-class people from rural Pennsylvania participating in events such as high school graduations.
- In 1976 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- In 2002 he was bestowed with an honorary doctorate from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit.
- In 2015 he was awarded Infinity Award in art by the International Center of Photography, New York.
- In 1986 he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Photography Fellowship.
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