In the summer of 1977, Miami Beach-born photographer Andy Sweet was working on his MFA thesis for the University of Colorado, preparing to graduate that December in Boulder. For the site of his project, the 24-year-old chose the bucolic, rustic scene at Camp Mountain Lake in Hendersonville, North Carolina, where Sweet himself had spent summers since 1968, first as a camper, then as a counselor and photography instructor.
The photos Sweet shot that summer are compiled in a new book, Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah: Andy Sweet’s Summer Camp 1977, published last month by Letter16 Press.
“You can really see an intimate portrait of summer camp’s golden era in these photos,” says Brett Sokol, cofounder of Letter16 Press and the book’s editor.
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Photo by Andy Sweet/Courtesy of Letter16 Press, via Miami New Times
