Comerica Park - Photography by Cassone - Detroit, Michigan

Curtis Roach Motor City Fine

Curtis Roach The Early Years - Part Two

Curtis Roach The Early Years - Part One

Happy Mother's Day 2023 06 from Campus Martius Park in Detroit

Happy Mother's Day 2023 05 from Campus Martius Park in Detroit

Happy Mother's Day 2023 04 from Campus Martius Park in Detroit

Happy Mother's Day 2023 03 from Campus Martius Park in Detroit

Happy Mother's Day 2023 02 from Campus Martius Park in Detroit

Happy Mother's Day 2023 01 from Campus Martius Park Detroit

Springtime at Campus Martius Park - Videography by Cassone

LIVE: Aretha Franklin funeral service

This is one time I am truly grateful for Modern Technology AND I am able to watch it on an app from my TV! Hallelujah! RIP Aretha Franklin!

Aretha Franklin Gave Us All Something We Could Feel

And Aretha Franklin has died. I am a mess. A lot of great memories doing her music on my shows. 😢 A lot of entertainers owe a lot to her legacy. The music will carry on. Listening to her high energy Live From Paris album 1977 as I write this. I associate  a lot of other fond, familial memories of her. She is like home. Very Detroit, very real, earthy and soulful. She truly gave us all something we can feel. She was a voice for not only women of color, but bridged a gap and became a voice for all women. The voice of a generation. Very pure. The real deal!

Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight 1

Scene from my play DON'T LET ME BE LONELY TONIGHT Detroit 1995 at 1515 Broadway. (L) Austin Mitchell, myself Antonio Cassone (center) and Cynthia Redmond (r)

VIGNETTES FROM THE MIRANDA FILES

VIGNETTES FROM THE MIRANDA FILES; 2005-06; Detroit, MI, USA
Antonio Cassone, model
Photos by C.A. McKenzie
http://www.youtube.com/cassone2007
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Thank YOU!

Behind the Lens 002 - Back in the '90s

Every picture has a story and this feature on my blog is directed to that notion. I decide these first posts would be of my work in front of the the camera. I have been blessed to work with a few great artists who were an excellent match for me and my theatrical or 'drag' persona. Eventually, as I learned and experienced more as a photographer, I ended up pointing that lens inward...lol...to get some interesting self-portraits as well.

These selections are a handful more of what I did in the 1990s and the blurbs behind each one...

Bloody Mary, photo by Sharon L. Cassone (1996)

God Bless my mother... this is a rare find from her. Through the years and due to life circumstances, I lost a lot of the photos she had taken of me from my earlier career. This was from the show The Extravaganza IV: Spellbound & Speechless, which ran at Club 246 in downtown Detroit and was the most successful installment of that series and I still use this photo annually around Halloween. Lilyne Zook designed the outfit. I have no idea what I was even doing in that moment in time, as that show was so off the hook and fun. Ahh, the memories.

makeup & photo by Diva Kingsley; a black and white variation of the photo from the earlier post... playing in makeup: The early days...haha

Miss Sam's Tiffany's Eternity, photo by Deborah Oliver

An 'eternity' only because the club got raided on drug-infested night in Detroit, thus the long standing club with quite a history filled with many good memories over the span of several decades and for many people in the Gay night club scene - all because of a selfish bar owner who cared more about peddling dope and less about his patrons and the entertainers, bartenders, spot light operators, DJs and production staff who counted on his pay to get on with their daily lives. Don't even get me started...

Sketch, by Anonymous

a fan did this drawing for me, but asked I not reveal their identity ever. hell, I don't even remember who did this for me anymore (just kidding), but I LOVE IT!

Miss Sam's Tiffany's Eternity, photo by Deborah Oliver

another variation