He began a career on Wall Street. He later attended the New York
Institute of Photography.
During World War II, he was a member of the Air Force Transport Command
where he rose to the ramk of major. He made reference films for pilots.
Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC).
He was an Academy Award-winning American cinematographer, descendant of the Van Rensselaer family.
He filmed the Bedaux expedition in 1934.
Crosby served as a cinematographer for the U.S. Army Air Corps film wing, and made flight training films in World War II. He left the Air Corps in 1946.