I worked for a lot of different companies in New York City as a photographer but I have to admit Herbert Fox was one of the biggest party promoters in the city he was doing them back in the studio-54 days he would have these incredible model wanna be parties and runway shows I photographed for him for over 15 years that’s why there’s 65,000 images on my digital library mia5.com and I edited those out of a quarter of 1 million they say it’s the largest portrait website in New York by one artist sorry for the bragging I can’t help it I’m a Italian guy from New Jersey

Lisa and I were hanging at the beach at Ponce Inlet that’s our getaway special spot I took this image I consider it one of my best beach pictures ever and I have been publishing them for over 40 years took it with the iPhone

Manhattan 9 o’clock in the morning I just opened up My store in Time Square We are next to a hotel this girl comes flying out really pissed off a Kodak frozen moment love the outfit

Three different photos and three different decades far right on the top the straw hat lounge Manhattan late 60s, bottom right hand corner above Captain Tony’s saloon In Key West Sals mask photography studio mid 70s I was there for that one, left hand photograph Sals studio in Manhattan late 50s

No it’s not a Halloween party or fantasy fest in Key West in fact it’s about 10 years before Fantasy fest was even thought about Captain Tony’s Dance floor 1979 when I used to work the door I would leave my position and walk around the bar to make sure nobody wasn’t unconscious, smoking weed, or having sex in the bumper pool room a little side room we had adjacent to the pool room anyway this was a new wave rock ‘n’ roll night our house band metro Would make the tourist, locals and fisherman nuts on that Dance floor many people we dress up Key West the way it was

Being the paparazzi of the common man in New York City you do capture some images from time to time especially since you’ve been doing it for 30 years I would set myself on different street corners this is 29th St. and sixth Avenue around the corner there is a methadone clinic a very popular one with all the heroin addicts so there was always a bunch of drug addicts coming and going in that intersection I would see a lot of people like this he was out of it portraitsofnewyork.com

One of my favorite photographs that my great uncle Sal took of my dad and grandfather The year 1942 my great grandfather had A house by the Elizabeth River in New Jersey My grandfather Captain Tony got his first little boat with a motor he didn’t do too much Fishing but he went by the docks at night to meet up with his buddies who were unloading ships my grandmother never could understand why He never brought home fish

Went down to my local liquor store the other day Fred was making his own masks

There’s a book out called the Peterstown press it’s a history of the Italians who lived in Elizabeth New Jersey in the last hundred years there’s pictures in There of the entire Terracina family Some of them go as far back as 1923 great uncle Sal started taking his images in the late 20s Sal has over 120 images in this book myself and Captain Tony have about 20 these three images right here of Italian bad asses of Elizabeth great uncle Joey was part of this crew 1947 I have the original glass Slides and negatives