I simply posted this photo and I said we better watch out who becomes president because this could happen this year
The lady who made it all happen and he’s been my mentor for over 30 years I was photographing the dancers at flash dancers in Manhattan and she was interviewing them getting them to sign a release we did our best work in the dressing room
I was walking down seventh Avenue I saw a commotion it was Christie Brinkley signing bathing suit posters I yelled out her name very loud Miss Brinkley please just one photo that’s how it’s done a big mouth Italian
Unless it is a arranged photo shoot it’s very difficult to take a picture with the flash in a Gogo bar unless you were the staff photographer of a stripper magazine like me before you did anything you had to convince the girl to sign a release if one doesn’t sign you’re not taking pictures of that stage this was at flash dancers Gentlemens club In Manhattan I convinced 17 girls at night to sign a release one of my records
If you go back to Keith’s work on this website you will see a category unpublished celebrities there is over 80 familiar celebrities on there that I photographed
When I inherited the Sal estate There were six human skulls with some crazy stories behind them I’ll leave it for the book
In the late 80s New Jersey was famous for their juice bars no liquor but the girls dance totally naked they usually serve great food and expensive soda the way it works they consider it art If there was no liquor
This is a small section I cropped out of a large format negative it’s from the early 50s one of the great uncle Sal‘s random images
My fair lady a strip club in Elizabeth New Jersey New Jersey wasn’t just the garden state with those great tomatoes eggplant and cranberries Back in the 80s it was the gogo state over 160 strip clubs I had about 80 of them advertising plus I had to take all the photos
This is a great poster Bob Kennedy did from Kennedy studios he hired me to go up in a helicopter and do aerial photographs of Key West 1981
