Went to this crazy party in the Bronx 1987 looked out the window and took this photo that’s the George Washington Bridge on a cold foggy night
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
Another great fisherman’s bar on Duval Street The 60s
My great grandfather Luigi Costello.Terrracina. Sal and Tony’s father Second cousin two notorious crime boss Frank Costello in Chicago we got stories from Elizabeth New JerseyI was his first great grandchild he died when I was eight remember him always giving me a dollar patting on the head and saying something in Italian
Portrait by Sal Terracina His little brother captain Tony Terracina photographed above his bar in Key West Fishel they drink all night wake up and do it again
