After graduating in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts in political science, he forwent attending law school and instead decided to pursue a career as a photographer.
After graduating from Whittier College, Talamon received an offer to work as a photographer at the 1972 Watts Festival in Los Angeles.
[4] Although he did not end up getting the job, he was able to secure a backstage pass, which allowed him the access needed to take pictures of some of the most notable R&B artists of that era.
Over the span of his career, he shot such household names as Donna Summer, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Bootsy Collins, and Chaka Khan.
He worked on projects at a number of major films studios over the next thirty years, including Staying Alive (1983), The Golden Child (1986), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Space Jam (1996) and Larry Crowne (2011).