[1][2] Livingston's 'Polaroid a Day' photographic diary started at Bard College and though 86 photos have gone missing from the collection, 6,697 Polaroids remain.

The collection, dated in sequence, has been organized by his friends Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid into an exhibit at the Bertelsmann Campus Center at Bard College called "Photo of the Day", which opened in 2007.

[4] Livingston was a member of Chris Wangro's circus troupe The Janus Circus founded by Wangro at Bard College with other Bard Alumni including Zeena Parkins.

[6] Livingston's Polaroid a Day charted his experiences with a brain tumor, and his subsequent engagement and marriage.

[4] Crawford cited the "everyman quality to the photographs" as part of their appeal, with the collection documenting everything from Livingston's lunch that day to the discarded Kodak and Polaroid packaging in a bin to TV screens showing presidents Carter, Reagan and Clinton.