Andy Sweet

Quick Facts

Full Name	Andy Sweet
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	Nov 9, 1953(1953-11-09)
Age	71
Date Of Death	October 17, 1982, Miami Beach, FL
Birthplace	Miami Beach
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Scorpio

Andy Sweet Biography

Andy Sweet is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on November 9, 1953 in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.

Andrew John Sweet (November 9, 1953 – October 17, 1982) was an American photographer known for his documentary photography and street photography. He photographed the life and residents of South Beach, with a particular focus on the Jewish community, many of them Holocaust survivors. Sweet also captured the carefree young people who made Miami Beach their second home. The Oxford American wrote a story on his vision of capturing a disappearing Jewish Community in Miami Beach.

A documentary film about Miami Beach, with photographs taken between 1976 and 1986 by Sweet and Gary Monroe, called The Last Resort, was released in 2018.

Andy Sweet Net Worth

Andy Sweet is one of the richest Photographer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andy Sweet 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Sweet was born in Miami Beach and attended Miami Beach Senior High School. Sweet and his family had ties to the Miami Beach Community. Sweet’s grandfather Nat Hankoff was one of the founders of Temple Emanu-El in Miami Beach. Sweet had his bar-mitzvah and funeral at the temple. His uncle Ted Hankoff (1922–2016) was a graduate of Cornell University and was a second lieutenant in the US Navy during World War II. Hankoff was best known for being the general manager of many Miami Beach hotels during the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s and the World Wide Discount Travel Club. Andy and Ellen’s family built the Monte Carlo and the Royal Palm along with the Roses.

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Sweet’s father, Nelan “Chick” Sweet, was a municipal judge and past president of the Miami Beach Bar Association. He stopped practicing law, losing faith that his son’s murderers would ever be justly prosecuted. Two men were later convicted of his murder. Jesus Ortiz, 31, a drifter from Austin, Texas, and John Taylor, 24, a Miami native, claimed to have killed Sweet in a search for cocaine. A third suspect, Marko Dukanovic, a homeless drifter, was later indicted in 1999 with DNA evidence that showed an extra set of fingerprints. But after 12 years in state psychiatric facilities, he was released. The media covered the long process of the trials.

Facts & Trivia

Aliya Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Andy Sweet celebrates birthday on November 9 of every year.

His violent death and the following trials were covered extensively in the media. The son of a prominent Miami Beach family, the gruesome nature of his death diverted attention from his art just when his work was gaining a following. By mischance, his negatives were lost, leaving only the prints he had made as his legacy, their colors slowly fading away. In 2006, Ellen Sweet Moss’ partner, Stan Hughes, found a trove of color ‘work prints’ Sweet made prior to printing full-size prints, Hughes realized that digital technology could be used to restore the fading colors back to the original color that Andy Sweet intended by using color photography instead of the black and white photography that was popular during this era.