I have been very lucky in my photography career which spans over 42 years since my grandfather and great uncle Sal were kind of famous people I got to meet a lot of famous celebrities and even hang out with them Tennessee Williams, Shel Silverstein, Jimmy Buffett, Clarence Clemons, it’s a pretty long list but […]
I have been a published photographer for over 42 years 30 years of it was spent in New York City after my Key West adventures in those 30 years I have taking over a quarter million photographs end published A incredible amount I also did over 1000 portfolios worked for a bunch of different studios […]
Over 40 years ago I used to take sunset and sunrise photos in Key West it’s probably the easiest photograph to take I ended up selling an publishing hundreds of them even did a couple posters I was very lucky to hook up with Kennedy studios in Key West at one point I had 12 […]
New Jersey is famous for its mob guys not too much these days but in the 30s to the 70s we had more connected people than ears of corn and we are the garden state this is one of my grandfathers partners back in the early 40s in 1947 they went their separate ways he […]
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 […]