His photographs helped Philippe Petit plan his tightrope-walking stunt between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974 and were prominently featured in the Oscar-winning film Man on Wire.
After graduation, he put filmmaking aside and continued taking classes with teachers including Sterling Jensen, a partner of Étienne Decroux.
[2] He also began photographing his performer friends at the time, and became a regular contributor to the pioneering rock magazine Crawdaddy!, photographing the Allman Brothers and the Grateful Dead at Summer Jam at Watkins Glen, as well as Jethro Tull, the Rolling Stones, John McLaughlin, Fairport Convention, and Traffic.
In 1974, he accompanied one of his friends, highwire artist Philippe Petit, to the World Trade Center, where he took numerous photographs that helped Petit plan his guerilla tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
[6] His photographs of clowns, jugglers, magicians, aerialists, ventriloquists, circus performers, and burlesque dancers have been seen in the New York Times,[7] the Village Voice, various international publications and several books, including Nothing's Impossible!