Taking a job at the Birmingham Post, he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming chief photographer for the paper.

In 1942, after the United States entry into World War II, he began reporting for the American Red Cross.

[1] When the war ended, he was a photographer for the Saturday Evening Post for which he traveled the world taking pictures of such historic figures as Josip Broz Tito, Charles de Gaulle, and Gamal Abdel Nasser.

[3][4] The picture is now one of the most requested images in the National Archives and Records Administration, being more popular than the Bill of Rights or the Constitution of the United States.

[7] The George Mason University Special Collections and Archives include approximately 60,000 of his photographs.