1996 I was photographing a party at Mustang Sally’s eighth Avenue It was about 3 o’clock in the morning the Empire State building look spectacular I took the shot
If you go to my digital library mia5.com you will see 65,000 images that I edited out of 65,000 photos I have taken on the streets of New York in a 30 year period Here is a random group of 25 attractive faces that walked in front of my camera
Back in the 80s I published over 1200 dancers between New York and New Jersey also acquired 1700 releases I might have the world record Anyway these girls are from over 30 years ago they were never published But still beautiful
Besides my great uncle Sal and myself being a photographer for our entire lives My grandfather’s Captain Tony took hundreds of photos in Key West on his boat and in his bar I also inherited all those negative here is some I printed up
I spent a lot of time on Canal Street in New York City Photographing seven years I saw a crime every day nothing terrible some guy ran past me I missed the shot of the criminal but I caught the More slower police behind him
1929 Sal is 18 years old he is booked in a bunch of different clubs as the world youngest mind reader he would do an act after playing the piano this is one of Salself self portraits he was trying to Hypnotize himself or Rita’s don’t mind I have the negatives to this pretty strange looking
If you looked at 1000 photos of Sal he is always well dressed with one of his outfits in 1918 he got his first suit at the age of seven this photo was taken in 1933
I took this photo of my grandfather in 1989 with Mr. Angelo, in 1947 The boogies put a contract out of my grandfather that’s why he fled the Key West back then Mr. Angelo was the one carrying the contract after 40 years they gave each other a hug Elizabeth New Jersey
I spent three decades photographing people on the streets of New York I learned a lot like this group of girls here they’re Colombian back 10 years ago beside getting fake breasts you can get fake butt cheeks really cheap in Columbia it’s a big thing there
I have to admit the Coney Island Beach isn’t the cleanest or the water I’ve been in it twice out of 100 times I’ve been there but what is really cool are these fake palm trees that shoot out cool fresh water all day in the hot sun It goes good with frozen margaritas
