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A life long resident of New York, Lionel Martinez was born in Brooklyn in the late 1940s. After Brooklyn Collage he moved to Manhattan in the 1960s. Lionel Martinez began his media career as a New York underground filmmaker. Several of his early works are still listed in the Film Cooperative catalog.He has worked on various aspects of documentary commercial and industrial film productions. Currently he works in independent television and Internet production. He is the author of seven books; three of them are popular histories. His photographs have appeared in The Time-Life Book of Century the 1960s, The History of the Irish in America and Fire Engines in America to name a few.Lionel Martinezs pictures are created via a digital process that incorporates photographic elements and computer generated graphic enhancements.Each image begins as a digital photo, which in this case is used as a sketch or rough draft.Those image elements are metamorphosed using computer software to bring out the feeling and emotion inherent in the developing image.The results of the enhanced digital images are on this site.