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Carolina Herrera at the Casita Maria Benefit Ball.

I shot her among many other designers and many

other socialites at the Plaza Hotel and

The Pierre Hotel in NYC. J.leon©1997

My favorite Oakie fashion statement.

On the way to Cheyenne, Oklahoma.

A millage marker.
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Adrianna. Posing for Vogue/Mexico

The product is the bustier.

at my studio in NYC
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Grand Central. Park Avenue South, NYC.
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LIRR. Grand Central, NYC.
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Lovely Adrianna at my studio. NYC
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The Carousel at Central Park

Times Square. NYC

Action behind 42st. Public Library
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Orchard Street. NYC

Hava, Hava, doing a good job. I shot her at my pent-house

at the Red Square in West Houston, The Lower East Side,

better know as Lozaida for some. Now is the "East Village".

The Lower East Side has changed so much from an all inmigrant

neigboorhood (polish,russian,puertorican) to an enclave of

gentrificators and some established artists.
Jleon©2000

On the way to Lisbon, Ohio.
Mail Pouch Tobacco advertisiments were the early billboards.
There are only few around.
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farmer's best friend.

Marion, fresh from Gemany. I made the faux background for

a music video I shot for Bernard Palumbo & Phillip Glass,

about the cauldron of ethincity in the Lower East Side.

Grady Alexis help me to paint it. The ad agency loved her photo .

Palumbo Taller. Lower East side. NYC

My friend Earl harvesting Soy at his farm in Zoar, Ohio.
He was really proud of his tractor. Working like a champ since 1967.

New York!! he said, hell no!...never been there..!

Laura, this girl had kind of a Vermeer look.
We had lots of fun but I haven't seen her since.
Here is the faux background again. NYC
Jleon©2000

Route 66. In Oklahoma on my way to Tulsa to visit

my sister and then to Tucamcari, New Mexico.
I drove the dam old historic road for miles.

In some places is in total disrepair . I crossed
the Missisippi river from Memphis to Arkansas

cotton fields all the way to Santa Fe.
Jleon©2000

The high desert. Santa Fe, NM.
On my way to Taos.
What a trip is this place!
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Durango-Silverton Narrow Gauge bridge.

San Juan Mountains. NM/CO.

Taos, NM.

Sangre the Cristo Mountains. On my way to Alamosa, CO.

Purgatory, CO.

Jleon@2000

Another Laura at my studio in Hoboken, NJ.
A hair product ad.

Liquor store, restaurant, city hall, sheriff hang out. Purgatory, CO.

Somewhere in the backroads of Pagosa Springs, CO.

The most incredible everything market in Taos, NM.

Chili Pepper. New Mexico's pride.
Jleon©2000

Melody at my studio in NYC.
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A skyscraper worker. San Francisco, CA.

Two usual suspects. Haight Asbury, CA.

Pacific Ocean sunset. Marin Headlands, CA.

A hard hat woman. San Francisco, CA.

An old man. Venice, CA.
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The birthplace of hippyland. Bolinas, CA.
Good times, good times.

Ghiraldelli Square and wharf sunset, SF, CA.

Couple shopping. Venice Beach, CA

Port of San Francisco.

Fisherman Wharf. SF, CA.

Jleon@2000