Reduced! SHTETL IN THE SUN: ANDY SWEET’S SOUTH BEACH 1977-1980 Miami FL HANUKKAH

Description: Rare 2018 LIMITED EDITION hardcover book of the Andy Sweet photography collection that accompanied the 2019 documentary The Last Resort, focusing on the nearly forgotten community of Miami Beach Jewish retirees that has since disappeared to make way for modern day Miami Beach. Introduction by Lauren Groff, edited by Brett Sokol. All pages and binding in near mint condition. Dust jacket in very good condition, with only minor shelf wear. Kept in nonsmoking adult home. Will package carefully and ship quickly via USPS Media Mail with delivery confirmation in recycled materials to help save our home. Feel free to ask any questions before purchasing… no returns please. Description “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 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

Price: 89.99 USD

Location: Miami, Florida

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