1945
He is awarded the Bronze Star and is discharged at Fort Louis, Washington, after leaving the Philippines
Travels to New York and enrolls in Columbia University’s Extension Division, where he lives in a residence hotel at 628 West 114th Street (now River Hall, Columbia University)
Becomes close friends with the photography curators Beaumont and Nancy Newhall through the Museum of Modern Art, where he is hired as a photographer and where Beaumont is also employed
Begins photographing facades in New York City