 His experience working with Abbe led him to commercial work in fashion photography.His early campaign work for Peck & Peck Department Store appeared in "Vogue" and "Bazaar" magazines from 1949 to 1953.Palumbo was a staff photographer of "Vogue" from 1959 until 1962 and at "Harper's Bazaar" from 1953 until 1959, where he worked with the art directors Alex Liberman and Alexey Brodovitch.