Photos of a Vanished Miami Beach Era Go on View

UPDATE:

Due to the recent developments with the COVID-19 virus, The Cleveland Print Room will be postponing the Opening Reception for Shtetl in the Sun: Works by Andy Sweet. We invite you to come and see Sweet’s work during our normal open hours between March 13 and April 17. The Cleveland Print Room is open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 12-6pm and Saturdays 12-5pm.

Fri 3/13 @ 5-8PM

In the ’70s, between its go-go Art Deco years of the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s and before gentrification brought a new wave of luxury hotels, chic night clubs and high-end international boutiques, Miami Beach’s South Beach was a landing place for elderly retirees from the north, many of them Jewish Holocaust survivors.

Street photographer Andy Sweet was a Jewish Miami Beach native, born in 1953, who returned home after college to embark with collaborator Gary Monroe on the Miami Beach photography project, to document a culture, which was vanishing on the eve of gentrification. He spent five years on the project before he was murdered in 1982, and his negatives were lost. They were later found by his family and restored in an ongoing project by his sister’s photographer partner. Many of his images, which — unusual for the era — were in color, became the 2019 book Shtetl in the Sun. This show features a selection of those photos.

A selection of those photos will go on view at the Cleveland Print Room, with an opening reception Fri 3/13 @ 5-8PM.

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