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

SKU: 9780989381192

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

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.

by Brett Sokol (Editor, Foreword), Andy Sweet (Photographer), Naomi Fry (Introduction)

Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2020


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

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

Audrey's Museum Store

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Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977
Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet's Summer Camp 1977 Sale price$39.95