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Andy Sweet

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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977
LETTER16 PRESS

The golden days of tube socks, bunk beds, marshmallows and first crushes: 1970s summer camp, from the photographer behind Shtetl in the Sun

Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 120 pgs / 109 color. | 5/26/2020 | In stock
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Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977–1980
Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977–1980
LETTER16 PRESS

“Andy Sweet’s photographs and a new film tell the story of a vanished Jewish community on the tip of Miami Beach that gave way to a glittering American Riviera.” –The New York Times

Hbk, 12 x 12 in. / 120 pgs / 132 color / 1 bw. | 2/19/2019 | Not available
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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977

Published by Letter16 Press.
Edited with foreword by Brett Sokol. Introduction by Naomi Fry.

A companion volume to Shtetl in the Sun, Andy Sweet's love letter to the colorful Jewish community of late 1970s South Beach, Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah chronicles the summer of 1977 at Camp Mountain Lake, serving up a knowing portrait of the era's fashion, pop culture and frank expressions of adolescent sexuality.

Set against the cherished rituals of camp life—from the parade of trunks as 300 campers arrive at Mountain Lake's rural North Carolina setting to the end-of-August Dionysian frenzy of "Color War"—Sweet's photos tell a classic coming-of-age story, one full of awkward crushes, intense friendships and the kind of deep truths that emerge over late-night, campfire-toasted marshmallows.

As the camp's photography instructor and one of its counselors, Sweet brings an intimate familiarity to his subject, capturing the rhythms of the camp's daily life through both posed compositions and spontaneous images. By turns nostalgic, poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, this collection includes a foreword by award-winning Miami arts journalist Brett Sokol and an introductory essay by New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry.



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Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 41   

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Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977–1980Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet's South Beach 1977–1980

Published by Letter16 Press.
Edited with foreword by Brett Sokol. Introduction by Lauren Groff.

Forget the jokes about late ‘70s South Beach being the Yiddish-speaking section of “God’s Waiting Room”; yes, upward of 20,000 elderly Jews made up nearly half of its population in those days—all crammed into an area of barely two square miles like a modern-day shtetl. But these New York transplants and Holocaust survivors all still had plenty of living, laughing and loving to do, as strikingly portrayed in Shtetl in the Sun, which features previously unseen photographs documenting South Beach’s once-thriving and now-vanished Jewish community—a project that American photographer Andy Sweet (1953–82) began in 1977 after receiving his MFA from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a driving passion until his tragic death. Sweet’s photos capture this community’s daily rhythms in all their beach-strolling, klezmer-dancing glory. “They were strong, humorous, and beautiful images,” fellow photographer Mary Ellen Mark, who worked closely with Sweet, remarked after his death. The book includes a foreword by award-winning Miami arts journalist Brett Sokol and an introductory essay by National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff.



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Letter16 Press

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Hardcover, 12 x 12 in. / 120 pgs / 132 color / 1 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2019 p. 159   

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