Lisa and I we’re at James Martin whiskey trading company sampling whiskey, rums, and tequilas with Nancy January 6 2021
As far back as the mid 70s I have been photographing beautiful women I actually worked for four different major studios and had three of my own publishing over 1200 exotic dancers and doing hundreds of nude and semi nude portfolios my numbers are way up there I was one of those photographers who did a lot of the 900 numbers you know call a girl for $1.99 a minute I am the guy who picked out the sexy girls For the ads And take their photos I had that special gift to capture that Face of seduction lots of practice
This photo is from when Sal had his mask photography studio with the world of mirth a bizarre traveling carnival in 1949 the masks on the back wall were made in the mid 30s and his studio in Manhattan they were going to be and the New York worlds fair they didn’t make it the two masks on the right are at our house here in Florida with 65 other ones they have some crazy ingredients in their papier-mâché mix talk about that another time the other large mask on the left is at My great uncle Lou’s daughters house keeping an ion things for over eighty years
No it is not a Photoshop image it is just one of my great uncle Sal‘s large format negatives from the 50s I held it up in front of my living room window with the backyard in the background kind of a double exposure I have so much fun with these large format negatives of his
After spending seven years in Key West Florida mid 70s through the early 80s I published a lot of postcards posters also work for the newspaper there covering the Cuban boatlift major drug seizures build up a pretty good portfolio when I started photographing in New York City I realized there was so much going on They’re then the little island I was on I ended up carrying a camera with me for 30 years morning noon and night that’s why my image library has 65,000 images on it that I edited out of a quarter of 1 million check it out mia5.com if you want to see a fine-tune version of that go to my showcase site portraitsofnewyork.com but then again stay on this category and you really will be amazed Always remember this on all my other sites every photograph was taken by me I might have the largest library by one artist in the city of New York nobody I met his match my numbers sorry about the bragging I am one of those Italian guys from Jersey
A little information about this category you have injured on this website you will see hundreds of interesting photos taken by three different family members dating back as far as the late 20s till present Salvatore Terracina The famous Captain Tony and myself Keith Terracina Also known as Keith West and the Go Go man sal and myself are publish photographers for our entire lives my grandfather Captain Tony was just a mafia guy from New Jersey who settled in Key West Florida and became a smuggler bar owner and they put a cherry on the cake The mayor of the crazy island we have images
If you go to this category you will see hundreds of photographs with some pretty wild stories pertaining to the 90 years of my great uncle Sal‘s photography and mine we have many websites and Facebook accounts but I’m going to focus this year on the images were using in our book they’ll be posted right here Between original negatives glass slides and digital chips I have access to over a half 1 million images that my great uncle Sal has taken myself and my grandfather Captain Tony every day you’ll be 50 new images many with stories
As you go through this category on this website you will see hundreds of images with some pretty wild stories That’s how we lived, my great uncle Sal and myself have taken close to a half of 1 million photos between us hundreds of them have been published as far back as the late 20s tell present that’s 90 years of imagery I am the one who owns all the original glass slides and negatives and then my 300,000 images on digital chips of New York City you also have to throw in my grandfathers collection the famous Captain Tony You know that smuggler mafia guy from New Jersey mayor of Key West I inherited his collection that’s what this website will be about all three of our images and adventures here’s a random 30 from New York City of mine
Besides Sal Terracina being a entertainer as far back as the late 20s he was a professional Published Photographer while he was playing the piano and doing his mind reading act on stage he was taking photos of everything and everybody he even had five different studios between New York City and Key West they just weren’t Photo Studios they were a mask Studios he made a lot of crazy masks as far back as the mid-30s I have most of the collection he was so famous his name was in neon and two different night clubs what you’re looking at here is some of his images I picked out gangsters, The midgets from the Wizard of Oz, A great portrait of Donald Trump and Joe DiMaggio and a bunch of family members there’s actually thousands of original large-format negatives and glass Slides as you go through this category you will see hundreds of publish photos between Sal and myself as far back as the mid-30s till present enjoy
Nothing really special just some photos Sal and I have taken in key west back in the 70s and early 80s key west the way it was
