The golden days of tube socks bunk beds marshmallows and first crushes 1970s summer camp from the photographer behind Shtetl in the SunA companion volume to Shtetl in the Sun Andy Sweets love letter to the colorful Jewish community of late 1970s South Beach Hello Muddah Hello Faddah chronicles the summer of 1977 at Camp Mountain Lake serving up a knowing portrait of the eras fashion pop culture and frank expressions of adolescent sexuality.Set against the cherished rituals of camp lifefrom the parade of trunks as 300 campers arrive at Mountain Lakes rural North Carolina setting to the endofAugust Dionysian frenzy of ampampquotColor WarampampquotSweets photos tell a classic comingofage story one full of awkward crushes intense friendships and the kind of deep truths that emerge over latenight campfiretoasted marshmallows.As the camps photography instructor and one of its counselors Sweet brings an intimate familiarity to his subject capturing the rhythms of the camps daily life through both posed compositions and spontaneous images. By turns nostalgic poignant and laughoutloud funny this collection includes a foreword by awardwinning Miami arts journalist Brett Sokol and an introductory essay by New Yorker staff writer Naomi Fry.