His father, Leslie, fought during World War II in the Battle of El Alamein; his mother, Phyllis (Hancock), was a housewife.
There, he worked first as an assistant and studied under Alexey Brodovitch, Henry Wolf, and Melvin Sokolsky.
[5] He subsequently received his first assignment with Condé Nast Publications in 1963,[5] and took photos for its magazines such as Glamour and Mademoiselle.
[3] Warhol commissioned McCabe to document a year in his life,[4] after informally interviewing him at The Factory.
One noted photograph was of Warhol and Salvador Dalí sharing a glass of wine at the St. Regis New York, with the latter deafeningly playing opera music to the point that his room trembled.
They remained in a drawer at McCabe's studio until around 2000, when The Andy Warhol Museum contacted him after learning about the pictures.