Miami Through the Lens 1977-1982

Miami Beach-based photographer Andrew Kaufman has produced his art in every format imaginable. He has worked for magazines, agencies, art directors, ad clients, and collectors while avoiding the mass homogenization of imagery so prevalent in commercial photography. Kaufman’s extensive client list includes State Farm, The Home Depot, Rolling Stone, DBB, Marlboro, Outside, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Arthur Frommer's, Worth, Smithsonian, Audubon, Popular Mechanics, and many other national and international publications. Kaufman’s work documenting the street art of Miami’s Wynwood district is displayed in I'm In Miami Bitch! The Disappearing Street Art of Wynwood.

Brett Sokol is a journalist based in Miami Beach, where he is currently the arts editor at Ocean Drive magazine. His writing on cultural issues has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Miami Herald, The New York Observer, New York magazine, The Awl, Slate, and Boy's Life.

A Miami native, Charles Hashim is the now-retired Chairman of Miami-Dade College's Photography department, where he taught from 1964 to 2003. His photos have also been exhibited at Barry University, Florida International University's Frost Art Museum, the Miami Art Museum, and most recently, at Bridge Red Studios/Project Space. He is the author of, We Are Everywhere And We Shall Be Free: Charles Hashim's Miami 1977-1982 (Letter16 Press). Previously unseen photos taken by Hashim from the late 1970s and early 1980s, capture “The Magic City” as its old social conventions came apart at the seams. Punk rockers, drag queens, outlaw bikers, and nonconformists of every stripe make their presence known— loudly— as a once-sleepy Southern burg transforms into modern Miami. All the images are carefully transferred from the original B&W 35mm negatives.