One of those bizarre coincidence stories eight or nine years ago,I was photographing in times square like I’ve been doing for 30 years, always looking for an interesting face I seen these two girls walking around I told them how would you like to be on this new famous website Portraits of New York I […]
I’ll never forget this day 44 years ago it was my dad‘s birthday he turned 40 and I was 21 we were partying in Key West on our way to captain Tony’s saloon to get our pictures taken above the bar at Sals mask photography studio We just smoked a big fat joint and did […]
Something for you up-and-coming big city street photographers there’s two ways of taking a portrait of a stranger on the street approaching you, number one you could sneak the photo pretending you’re a tourist and photographing something in the background never have eye contact with them while doing this, Another way is stop them and […]
My great uncle Sal has been making mask as far back as the mid-20s when he was a teenager he actually made them through his entire life until his death in 1995 that’s over 70 years I have a large part of the collection this mask right here is a certain style he did in […]
Her name was bubbles I photographed her in the late 80s she was a feature dancer wherever she worked she had top billing I photographed her at a club in North Arlington NJ called Snappers she actually did a wild show on stage I ended up doing her portfolio and we put her on the […]
Most people heard this story 20 times I say it all the time on Facebook, Pretty much 40 years ago I had something to do during the day at my grandfathers bar in Key West as I pulled up on my bicycle I saw this beautiful tall model type standing out in front of the […]
In New York City during the Halloween weekend there’s more of those type parties then New Year’s Eve parties sometime I would photograph three of them in one night which means I’ll be partying from right after the village parade till four in the morning By time I’m at the third party my memory shuts […]
My grandfather Captain Tony hired lots of people that workrd for him at the bar or doing stuff on the boat A lot of bad asses most of the people who did side jobs for him were from Elizabeth New Jersey this girl right here tiny the most dangerous bouncer he ever hired a 320 […]
For over 40 years I have been doing portfolios of beautiful women and publishing over hundreds of them I have this massive collection of proofs only because I was in the business I have about 1500 original prints an over 40,000 negatives probably one of the largest collections in the world i’m not talking about […]
Did you ever see the movie Scarface with Al Pacino you know the Tony Montana guy Well in 1980 I was in the right place at the right time two blocks from my grandfather’s bar in Key West was the US Naval base that’s where all those family members and criminals came in I was […]