[2] Macauley also experimented with a folding Kodak Bantam camera, a Foth Derby, a Rolleicord I, an Argus, a National Graflex and a Miniature Speed Graphic with a soft focus Verito lens.
Macauley entered Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1942 and in December hitchhiked to New York City to meet Alfred Stieglitz.
He was assigned to a Photographic Squadron which made mosaic maps of all coastlines in the Western Hemisphere including Greenland.
As a student during the summer of 1947, accredited as a foreign correspondent, he traveled through Central America and photographed the events of Costa Rican Civil War.
In 1996 he was contracted by the JFK Presidential Library to appraise a series of documentary films which Ernest Hemingway co-produced, narrated and appeared in.
[12] In 1997 Macauley was appointed by the United States Department of Justice to appraise the Zapruder film of the assassination of President John F.
[17] He is also known for a series of portraits he produced mostly in the 1950s, including photographs of Jack Benny, Aldous Huxley, Frank Lloyd Wright, Count Basie, Buster Keaton and John Houseman.
[20] Minor White considered Macauley's images "sensitive" and "lyrical" and noted that he could "work with people with considerable insight and power.