All I could say is check out my grandfather’s T-shirts and those 90 pound bales of panama red that was some wicked weed 1978 a hell of a year
Believe it or not my first roll of film 1977 Simonton St. pier that’s Christmas tree island in the background back in the mid-70s all the locals went there for sunset everybody Brought weed mushrooms and Coke it was the 70s
Sometimes I would set up a fill flash under scaffolding in New York City great lighting for interesting strangers walking by
One of Sals Queen Mary Negatives South St., Seaport 1967
A must read Parallels In 1949 cell worked for a bizarre carnival called the World of Mirth it was a Bizzarre traveling carnival Sal was the mind reader hypnotist matchmaker and photographer even have his own studio on the premises the other magazine was also a one of a kind it was a gogo magazine I’m the guy who took all the pictures sold ads and ran the on premise is exotic nude studio Sal photographed thousands of gorgeous male models I photographed thousands of female exotic dancers we were on a mission
Sometimes my passion for the image overrides my fear and decision or the consequences that could happen like this image
I went to Fort Jefferson Dry Tortugas many times in the last 40 years this was my first trip in 1976 that’s my dad he was 39 years old and I was 20 it was definitely a pretty wild trip especially on our stop off on the way back
This is in back of the raw bar Key West 1976 that’s the key west shrimp fleet a front came in and they had to Come in for a couple days those shrimpers could drink and party first the Raw bar And then the boat bar then West Key bar And then of course 3 o’clock in the morning Captain Tony’s
Between Sal and myself we have over 80 years of publishers photos and thousands of studio portfolios sal was photographing as far back as 1928 till his death in 1995 and me I’ve been published as far back as 1978 and I’m still rolling this is a photograph of both of us and my little brother Key West 1976 hell of a year
Sal had many locations in Manhattan this is the place he was partners in eighth Avenue the 60s what a fun place that was some pretty wild images came out of there And definitely some wild stories to go with them
