I love playing around with great uncle Sals large format negatives, there’s thousands of them this one I’m guessing was from the theater district

In 1932 great uncle Sal had a mask photography studio in Elizabeth New Jersey He was also playing the piano professionally at a lot of different clubs in New York and Jersey also reading minds in hypnotizing people all this at the age of 21 many published stories in the newspapers go to the category […]

When I opened Up my photography Mask studio in 2004 I bought a used 1991 Fleetwood Cadillac four-door incredible interior did a lot of portfolios in there Mary Rogers dancer

I took this portrait of my dad and my grandfather that’s when Captain Tony was a New Jersey gangster 1934 last August 10th my grandfather would’ve been 104 years old we had a big party at the bar it’s funny we are all 20 years apart I’m 64 my dad‘s 84 and the captain would’ve […]

My great uncle Sal tactically was a famous published photographer he just never promoted himself he was too busy playing the piano professionally making masks reading minds and hypnotizing people from 1927 till his death in 1995 he always shot large format never 35 mm He either used a 4 x 5 negative or a […]

If you ever saw the movie Scarface with Al Pacino you would remember in the very beginning it showed all the Cubans arriving to Key West, at that time I was a staff photographer for the Key West Citizen newspaper and my grandfathers bar Captain Tony’s saloon was two blocks from the Navy base as […]

In August of 2004 I wrote a story about my great uncle Sal an submitted 20 photographs pertaining to the story, A major publishing company in Germany gave me a call right away at the same time the American photo Magazine contacted me within one month I landed the feature story editors choice in American […]

In 1999 I snuck into the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan, I was known for sneaking into many events in the city I had my secret entrance ways, I had a great collection of some very fancy sports jackets and always carried a small handheld professional camera I came down the elevator from the third-floor within […]

One of my favorite images of my great uncle Sal’s masks and I have hundreds of them, I even have 65 of them in my collection this photo was taken in great uncle Sal’s mask studio in 1949 when he was with the world of mirth the bazaar traveling carnival most of the mask in […]

Does anybody remember the band Devo you remember that famous song, Wip It Good They have been punking out for close to 45 years, One of their main singers Gerald Caselli Is my partner on one of my Sal projects I got to hang out with them and party with them I also photographed A […]