Maybe some of you guys remember her back in the 80s Stacy Vaughn She was in a lot of movies 110 of them she saw my work in the magazine and wanted me to do her portfolio most of them are too rough to put on this website but there is some cool ones with […]
Need some Nick tickets
If you know anything about ticket scalping these guys been doing it for close to 20 years by Penn Station New York Sometime you get real tickets sometime you don’t they show me around for a long time I explain to them that I’m not a cop they still got pissed off when I tried […]
Don’t even ask
Sal captured their expressions from behind the bar some of my favorite images
There’s many reasons I like these type of photos when Sal got done performing either his mind reading act or playing the piano he would go behind the bar and take pictures of customers nowadays everybody has a iPhone to take pictures so we all know how to pose Back then I don’t think too […]
Captain Tony’s saloon Key West the way it was 42 years ago
Captain Tony’s saloon 42 years ago the band that night Pacific Orchestra best band by far in Key West at the time we had them six nights a week during season, above Captain Tony’s left window A lot of high stake card games I was a sandwich boy a couple times before I got promoted […]
Same story told a different way so many stories pertaining to the world of mirth
I told many stories that were told to me from my great uncle Sal, The year 1949 Great uncle Sal worked for the bazaar traveling carnival the world of mirth it traveled down from Canada to Virginia and back Sal was the mindreader, hypnotist, mask maker, piano player, and photographer He even did their magazine […]
Eyes wide shut
Did you ever see the movie eyes wide shut with Tom Cruise and his wife Nicole Kidman at a time the movie was kind of out there to most people, The-mask you’re looking at in the middle of this photo That I just took in my mask room was created by Sal 1951 during the […]
My last project in New York Coney Island
I have been photographing and publishing beautiful women for over four decades It was a hell of a run four years ago I hooked up with the love of my life Miss Lisa Jo Burke Yes Georgia peach’s do exist we lived together way back in the day 40 years ago in Key West We […]
Pulled out a random negative from the Sal collection printed it up just to see
My great uncle Sal was taking portraits as far back as 1928 till his death in 1995 I inherited his lifetime of photographs negatives masks and paintings there’s over 8000 large format negatives that were not printed up maybe they were printed up back in the day and Sal gave them to the person, He […]
Window lighting I designed for the merchandise an the portraits I wanted to do outside
If you go to any of my websites you will see some very interesting outdoor portraits for two reasons the people I picked out and the lighting, I designed a lot of window displays wherever I worked Times Square, 34th St, Chinatown I would always put extra lights in the windows showing the merchandise But […]