[5] Always analytical, he started to realize the role that emulsion played as he compared his own photographs with those his father had kept in albums through the years.
"I could never make my photographs of Butch the dog look like the pearly finish of my father's prints, and it was then that I realized the importance of the emulsion of the day.
"[5] Around 1954, Sokolsky met Robert Denning, who at the time worked with photographer Edgar de Evia, at an East Side gym.
"I discovered that Edgar was paid $4000 for a Jell-O ad, and the idea of escaping from my tenement dwelling became an incredible dream and inspiration.
[5] He made editorial fashion photographs for publications such as Harper's Bazaar (for which he produced, in 1963, a "Bubble" series of photographs depicting fashion models "floating" in giant clear plastic bubbles suspended in midair above the River Seine in Paris),[6] Vogue[7] and The New York Times.