In the mid-60s through the late 70s great uncle Sal had this incredible mask photography studio above his brothers bar in Key West Captain Tony’s Saloon He would end up doing hundreds of portraits of all the characters in Key West and trust me that place was packed with characters people like Tennessee Williams Shel […]
The masks you were looking at were created in 1938 for the Chicago world‘s fair by great uncle Sal they never made it that’s another whole story the two masks behind Sal and my great and my great aunt Palma are actually in one of our mask rooms and our dining room they were made […]
This is not a political statement it’s my partner Scott in New York City when we had portraits of New York Scott would get us into all the big parties and events in the city this was seven years ago at the grand Marquis at the Marriott Scott actually knew him some type of skin […]
I took this photo on Columbus Day in Elizabeth New Jersey in 1990 at a time my grandfather was mayor of Key West the city of Elizabeth where he was born and raised flew him up from Key West to be the grand marshal of the famous Columbus Day Parade 43 years before this photo […]
The Coral Lounge early 50s
In 1995 my great uncle Sal passed away with an incredible estate of thousands of large format negatives hundreds of published photos there was also his art collection and over 100 of these giant papier-mâché mask that he made as far back as the mid 30s you can go to the section on this website […]
My great uncle Sal did thousands of portfolios in New York City A lot of famous people this one here is Gene Hackman when he first arrived in New York City Sal did his first professional portfolio I’m not quite sure of the year but after looking at the original negatives I’m guessing early 50s
Miss Lisa Burke 1981 my first professional portfolio we lived together On that Crazy Island Key West lasted two years we didn’t see each other for 37 years met on Facebook we have been married now for four years.
