Pure Camp

Andy Sweet’s photographs of a 1970s sleepaway camp offer a glimpse at suspended summertime rituals.

In the great adolescent divide between camp people and non-camp people, the late photographer Andy Sweet was ardently pro-camp. In 1968, at age fourteen, he began attending Camp Mountain Lake, a sleepaway camp in North Carolina that catered primarily to Jewish families from his native Miami, and then returned as a counselor and photography instructor. 

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