Tag: Andy Sweet

  • Dread and Longing at a Nineteen-Seventies Sleepaway Camp | The New Yorker

    Dread and Longing at a Nineteen-Seventies Sleepaway Camp | The New Yorker

    Dread and Longing at a Nineteen-Seventies Sleepaway Camp Andy Sweet’s 1977 photographs from Camp Mountain Lake, in North Carolina, beautifully capture the cheerful triumphs and the gutting alienation that one can experience at camp. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/dread-and-longing-at-a-nineteen-seventies-sleepaway-camp This cluster of knotty feelings resurfaced almost immediately when I began looking at Andy Sweet’s photographs…

  • Vivid 1970s Miami Beach culture: All quirk, no vice – The Washington Post

    Vivid 1970s Miami Beach culture: All quirk, no vice – The Washington Post

    Vintage 1970s Miami Beach culture: All quirk, no vice Before “The Golden Girls,” 1970s Miami Beach was already a colorful haven for old-world culture. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2015/06/22/vivid-1970s-miami-beach-culture-all-quirk-no-vice/ Throughout the 1970s, a young photographer named Andy Sweet documented the personalities of Miami in vivid color. In 1977, Sweet returned to the area after completing his…