Jay Hoops
American, 1919 - 2004
“Hoops studied photography first with Clarence White Jr. at The Clarence H. White School of Modern Photography and later with Alexey Brodovitch and Minor White.
“By the late 1940s, Hoops had opened Jay Hoops Studios, a commercial photography studio in New York City, and took photography fashion assignments for TWA, photographed still-life, and did commercial and advertising photography, which appeared in popular magazines and on post cards. During its first years, Jay Hoops Studios also sold enamel-finished cigarette boxes with photographs on them. During the 1960s and 1970s, Hoops focused on architectural photography, taking assignments for Rockefeller Center, Harrison and Abramovitz, I.M. Pei, and others. In the early 1950s, she got a cottage in Hampton Bays and maintained studios in New York City and Schinnecock Hills. In the 1960s, she moved to Hampton Bays full-time and began photographing the local seascape, meadows, and beaches. Hoops' journalistic photography work regularly appeared in the newspapers of eastern Long Island. At the end of her life she was working with digitalized Polaroid.
“Hoops became closely associated with Guild Hall in East Hampton, where she regularly photographed exhibitions, productions, plays, and other events; showed her own work; and taught courses. She was a founding member of the group Photographers East. She also led photography workshops at the Southampton Campus of Long Island University.” (From “Jay Hoops” on Wikipedia.)
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
The Polaroids were the subject of the exhibition Jay Hoops: Polaroids at Wright State University: The Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, August 26, 2022–November 1, 2022.
Hoops’ work is in the collection of Guild Hall (Long Island, NY).
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American, 1845 - 1909
