Edward began taking photos when he was eleven and by 1949 his pictures, two made with a Kodak Brownie while he was still at school, were purchased for the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
One night, when I was invited to a makeshift potluck dinner, Eartha Kitt and Alice Ghostly performed songs with John pounding the ivories.
Others who showed up at the Wallowitch salon at which Andy and myself became regulars were actors Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott, George Segal and a coterie of cabaret chanteuse-style singers, including Lovelady Powell, Joanne Berretta, and Jo Ann Worley, who performed at Jan Wallman’s ‘Upstairs at the Duplex’ when it was on Grove Street.Wallowitch was among the photographers who exhibited at Helen Gee's Limelight gallery, then the only photography gallery in New York.
In 1956 Wallowitch's pictures of children's’ chalk drawings traced from shadows on the pavement were featured in Design magazine[9] and in Life in 1957.
[10] Photos from Wallowitch's series on children and teens appeared in Warhol's lushly presented A Gold Book (1957)[11][12] printed on gold-coated paper with tissue in pastel hues laid between the pages, though it also features more explicitly erotic content, including a portrait of a man clenching a rose between his teeth while drawing another man's naked posterior.
Warhol also used Wallowitch's photograph Young Man Smoking a Cigarette(c.1956),[14] for his 1958 design for a book cover he submitted to Simon and Schuster for the Walter Ross pulp novel The Immortal, also for his dollar bill series,[15][16] and for Big Campbell’s Soup Can with Can Opener (Vegetable), of 1962 which initiated Warhol's most sustained motif, the soup can.
In 1966 Wallowitch photographed for a book about the Appalachian Mountains titled My Appalachia by the children's author Rebecca Caudill.