He studied with Nathan Lyons while an apprentice at the Eastman House Museum, and Minor White in Arlington. In 1973 he established Pentacle Press, which specialized in printing fine-quality books and posters for photographers and publishers. His photographs, prints and books are included in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. In 2010 he retired from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he taught full-time for 20 years.