A 1977 photo of porch sitters at a Miami Beach hotel taken by Andy Sweet. ANDY SWEET Miami Herald File Ellen Sweet and her partner Stan Hughes have spent the greater part of their lives working to ...

AMHERST — Andy Sweet, a young photographer right out of graduate school in the late 1970s, embarked on a proposed decade-long project documenting the elderly Jews of Miami’s South Beach. These former ...

The pictures capture candid moments of beachgoers back in the 1970s and 80s, but they’re still making waves today.

“The Last Resort” takes a look back to a time when Miami Beach was home to what was considered the largest cluster of Jewish retirees in the country. The film, directed by filmmakers Dennis Scholl and ...

Before South Beach became today’s international tourist hot spot, it was a retirement haven. A new HistoryMiami Museum exhibit reflects on the days when mostly Jewish seniors basked in the sun on Art ...

Featuring two complementary shows, “On the Beach” and “In the Pool,” the exhibition showcases Tod Papageorge’s photography ...

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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - Seventy years worth of some of Myrtle Beach’s oldest photographs are temporarily headed to storage. Photographer Jack Thompson moved his photo studio out of its downtown ...