[1] He graduated from Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in 1965 and studied anthropology at Wesleyan University before taking up photography in 1969.
[5] In his early career Cunningham specialized in photographing musicians and theatrical performances and concerts.
[6] In 1973, as his first professional assignment, he shot Bruce Springsteen's first publicity photographs for Columbia Records.
A number of images from the photo session were lost and were exhibited for the first time in 2016 after having been rediscovered.
[9] He participated in and photographed the first "interfaith meditation retreat" at the Auschwitz concentration camp led by Glassman in 1997.