Back in the late 30s great uncle Sal was so far ahead of himself beside doing that painting and setting up this double exposure he hypnotized his brothers friend And took a photo if you hold the negative up to a light box which I did you see something different
My dad and Denny Rebecca Shoals That fish use to be on the menu in The Florida keys in the 40s and 50s they called it the Jew fish For a while there they were calling it the Israeli grouper and now it’s final name is the goliath grouper they almost became extinct A year […]
The year 1989 ten Years before I took this photo I flew up from Key West to New York City to buy some new camera equipment I spent a day photographing all over New York City people, buildings, pimps, and prostitutes that day back in 1979 stayed in my head for a bunch of years […]
In 1985 I got very lucky and landed this incredible job in Manhattan in the worlds largest camera store at a time Willoughby’s, I got to learn all about cameras from the best these old Jewish salesman been there since the second world war they hired me because I was a published photographer, at that […]
The masks did hypnotize people in my studio Some of the girls told me they were being hypnotized
This is something that amazed my great uncle Sal and myself In 1951 Sal worked for the, World of Mirth a bizarre traveling carnival, he did all the photos for them did his famous mind reading hypnotizing act, played the piano there’s one thing he did for this company they put together a carnival magazine […]
The newspapers and cable news is very funny when I first inherited Sals massive estate of art I went to the newspaper and told them I’m doing a big gallery show in New York which I completely made up so they did a story on Sal and his masks and photography then I went to […]
These are not Sals masks but I think he took these photos they were in the estate in a special envelope no negatives one thing Sal and I do we buy up vintage photography Sal was buying vintage photography in the 30s I have part of his collection most of those photographs are from the […]
I took this photo at Calvin Klein’s birthday party she or he was next to him for a good part of the night I got a quick chance to talk to Calvin Klein only because he lived in Key West and he knew my grandfather this one here kept eyeballing me I have lots of […]
Her name was Lindy one of the first bartenders I met at my grandfather’s bar in 1976 When I move there from Jersey when I move there from Jersey she had an incredible following everybody came to visit her at the bar and have a cocktail for many years after she left my grandfather always […]