John Lennon is One of my favorite artists I got him and Jim Morrison were incredible poets I never got to meet John Lennon but I got to meet his wife Yoko Ono I heard so many bad stories about her through the tabloids but I have to admit after meeting her she really was […]
This is some super cool stuff right here it’s one of Sal’s Composite sheets throughout Sals life he probably did over 1000 portfolios of actor and actresses wannabes hundreds of them made it on Broadway or in movies just on this simple composite sheet there’s lots of them there’s Gene Hackman,James Earl Jones, George Maharis […]
41 years ago that’s my dad on the right Captain Andy Griffith Senior in the middle and Andy Junior on the far left he was a junior in high school back then, an me I was taking photos smoking a joint and drinking tequila of course I was fishing also, we had out Riggers on […]
If you get a hold of a book called the Peterstown press you’ll see a lot of photographs of these guys these are the original Sopranos from Elizabeth New Jersey not only do I have the original negatives and prints I have their names great uncle Sal did their portraits at the famous mob barbershop […]
I guess I could put these images on my website and explain who they were, over 70 years ago there was a barbershop in Elizabeth New Jersey called Henny LaSalle’s of course it was a mob joint my great uncle Lou cut here there as far back as the late 30s There’s a book out […]
Try to understand this crazy story on March 27, 1981 there was a giant freighter in the international waterway 30 miles off the shores of Key West, the cargo was over 200 tons of panama red marijuana as we called it the wicked weed The marine patrol, And Coast Guard was on their ass they […]
Arcadium hall Westfield New Jersey back in the 40s it was a dance hall big dance floor and large stage, A friend of mine rented the entire building his wife was a photographer they had a great studio there I actually got to shoot there a couple times, crazy thing we found out through some […]
Anybody who knows my work knows I set up on many intersections in Manhattan photographing anybody interesting walking past me my digital library mia5.com has over 65,000 images on it that I have been editing out of for many years It’s still an art project in the works like all my other websites anyway I […]
Most photographers specialize in certain things since I’ve been a Published photographer for over 42 years I have lots of specialties capturing the evil wicked nightlife is one of my specialties there’s a bar in Queens called the music box it’s the first gay sports club crazy things went on there cute guys dancing on […]
Besides Sal making all the masks and doing his famous mind reading hypnotist act he played the piano and took all the photos for the bazaar traveling carnival the world of mirth late 40s the masks on the right have some spiritual powers most of them are at my house as I’m writing the story […]