Alexander came to the city to be an actor, and indeed got cast in On the Town. But he “made it in New York as a photographer, taking portraits of the likes of Martha Graham and Vivien Leigh; having gallery shows; working for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine and the New York City Ballet; and providing droll pictures for the best-selling 1961 satire of a movie star’s memoir, Little Me, written by Patrick Dennis and later adapted for the Broadway stage by Neil Simon. And he found love.”