If you go to one of my other websites portraitsofnewyork.com You will see another whole world of my photography there is 8 different categories on that site, This Image right here goes under the category, in and out, It’s a documentary on pretty much the wildest Gay sports club in Queens New York The music […]
Pretty cool image right here Sal was very good friends With the midgets from the Wizard of Oz that was in 1939 ten years later he runs it to them in New York City 1949, the little guys were out of work Sal hooked them up with that bizarre traveling carnival world of mirth One […]
Somebody recommended them to me they do movies they wanted me to photograph the stills I will leave it at that Don’t get crazy they were ballerina dancers I think
If you cross under the bridge between the Atlantic ocean and the Gulf of Mexico in Islamorada the water will change to this quickly don’t get me wrong the Atlantic side is very beautiful also, no matter how crowded it gets in the Florida Keys and Key West and how sick people get this will […]
Every once in a while I post a picture and I say a photo could tell 1000 stories this is one of those my great uncle Sal shot it could tell 5000 stories The year 1973 the Village New York City, Sals friend was a projectionist for this triple X theater one of the most […]
Back in the mid-70s when I first started photographing in Key West I would go to every sunset either at Mallory Square or mostly at Simonton Street where most of us locals hung out and then after going out all night partying a lot of us would end up at sunrise at White Street pier […]
Great uncle Sal was a entertainer his whole life playing the piano, reading minds, hypnotizing people his two favorite things were to make masks and photograph people he would always find these jobs that would put him in weird situations night clubs during prohibition traveling carnivals and reading minds an hypnotizing people at mafia bars […]
40 years ago I was on my way to work at my grandfather’s bar in Key West I noticed a new girl standing outside in front of the Bikini store she just started working there and doing some modeling for them long story short I introduce myself we went on a couple dates some adventures […]
After my grandfather fled Elizabeth New Jersey to go hide out in Key West he arrived There in 1947 with about $15 in his pocket he probably gambled that away the first day in Key West he already lost all his traveling money in Miami at the horse track so he hitchhiked down to Key […]
I spent three decades photographing in Time Square the crossroads of the world the most traveled intersection on planet earth By strange and interesting people And a lot of curious ones my digital library has over 65,000 people on it that I edited out of a quarter of 1 million mia5.com, I was doing it […]