Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU Opens Shtetl in the Sun: Andy Sweet’s South Beach 1977-1980

Photography by on March 19th, 2019 in Lifestyle

Brett Sokol

Miami Beach, FL – March 19, 2019 – The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU‘s Executive Director, Susan Gladstone, welcomed cultural leaders and luminaires to the first solo museum show featuring the iconic work of South Beach photographer Andy Sweet. The exhibition celebrates the legendary artist’s photography during the late 1970s, capturing the colorful elderly Jewish community in South Beach before Andy Sweet’s untimely death. Includes more than 60 images, plus original photographs that have never been shown, handpicked by Sweet’s family exclusively for this museum show. In attendance were Ira Giller, Ellen Sweet Moss, Stan Hughes, Dennis Scholl, Kareem Tabsch, Brett Sokol, Fransesco Casale, Igor Shteyrenberg, George Neary, Carlos Betancourt, Herb Sosa, Richard Jay-Alexander, Steve Rothaus and David Sexton.

Brett Sokol

Brett Sokol & Stan Hughes

Brett Sokol

Ira Giller

Susan Gladstone

Jacqueline Goldstein

Dennis Scholl, Ellen Sweet-Moss, & Stan Hughes

Amy Somek, Susan Gladstone, & George Neary

Harvey Burstein, Paul Petrella, & Ed Fisher

Igor Shteyrenberg, Dennis Scholl, Ellen Sweet-Moss, & Stan Hughes

David Sexton, Kareem Tabsch, & Richard Jay-Alexander

Andrew Kaufman, George Fishman, & Stan Hughes

Richard Jay-Alexander, Carole Cole, Suzanne Pallot, & David Sexton

Susan Gladstone, Brett Sokol, Jacqueline Goldstein, & Francesco Casale

Suzanne Pallot & Caron Cole

Brett Sokol & Sandra Schulman

Gerri Sternfeld & Mitch Rymar

Richard Jay-Alexander & Steve Rothaus

Herb Sosa & Carlos Betancourt

Harvey Burstein & Nancy Cohen

Brett Sokol, Carlos Betancourt, Edward Christin, Ira Giller, & Alberto Latorre