Thanks, seeing these reminded me that in my younger days before I considered myself a photographer I used to collect "art" postcards, mostly of posters and graphic illustrations, rather than photographs. But his "Hat Fashions" was one of the first photo cards in that collection and probably helped spark the urge. Not that I'm well qualified to comment on fashion but a lot of his compositions are strongly graphic (to me).
And (echoing the point about chutzpah rather than being disparaging) he created a sausage named after him...
Tony