A rare image of Sals mask studio never seen it was terribly underexposed I played around with it with my iPhone really like this image
Family friends and strangers Great website 65,000 people edited out of a quarter of 1 million every photograph was taken by me in my stay in New York City for 30 years portraitsofnewyork.com
Every year we celebrate my grandfather’s birthday at his bar Captain Tony’s saloon last year we found an artist who carved his face in a big piece of wood we took him down to the bar for his birthday he would’ve been 103 my dad is 83 his oldest son and I’m the oldest grandson 63 We were heading in for definitely a scotch night we didn’t have the birthday this year because of the stupid fucking virus
Every photograph on this site is either done by my great uncle Sal on myself this is one exception 1840 first photograph of the moon From the New York observatory
Between great uncle Sal and myself we have over 90 years of incredible imagery and thousands of publish photos Some pretty wild stuff
The man the myth the legend Sal Terracina mind reader hypnotist professional piano player and photographer he also work for the OSS during World War II and the Korean War as a undercover photographer The OSS was the CIA back then Sal was reading minds as far back as 1927 when he was 16 that’s what he was sent to the Newark psychic center
Once a week Lisa and I go down to Ponce Inlet hang out at our friends condo Jump in the ocean and go for a long walk toward Daytona this time I took my old 400 mm lens and took some photos
My first role of black and white film Key West 19 £.78 Smathers Beach the wind was blowing and the sun just came up I had one of those rough nights at Captain Tony’s close the bar at four went partying till sunrise I remember that day
I took this photo off the TV it’s from the movie swordfish with John Travolta and Halle Berry That’s one of cells lost masks they were 300 made I have 110 of them the one you’re looking at has been lost since the 70s when John Travolta walks through a bar it’s hanging on the wall
In 1976 I finally moved to Key West and started working for my grandfather the famous fishermen gambler owner of the original Hemingway bar, and eventually become mayor of Key West These are some of the girls that work for him 45 years ago the one on the right and that was the big problem my grandfather was wearing his favorite shirt Jesus coming and boy is he pissed I have the slide reversed
