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Jay Hoops
Hoops in Southampton, NY, c.1955
Born
Jane F. Hoops

(1918-11-22)November 22, 1918[1]
New York City, U.S.
DiedJune 20, 2004(2004-06-20) (aged 85)
OccupationPhotographer

Jay Hoops (October 22, 1918–June 20, 2004) was an American photographer.[2]

Early life and education

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Jay Hoops was born in New York City.[3] Her father, Herman Ludwig Hoops[4], was a partner at Hawley & Hoops, a chocolate and confectionery company in Lower Manhattan.[5][note 1]

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.[6]

Career

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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.[7] During its first years, Jay Hoops Studios also sold enamel-finished cigarette boxes with photographs on them.[8] During the 1960s and 1970s, Hoops focused on architectural photography, taking assignments for Rockefeller Center, Harrison and Abramovitz, I.M. Pei, and others.[2] In the early 1950s, she got a cottage in Hampton Bays[9] and maintained studios in New York City and Schinnecock Hills.[10] In the 1960s, she moved to Hampton Bays full-time and began photographing the local seascape, meadows, and beaches.[2] Hoops' journalistic photography work regularly appeared in the newspapers of eastern Long Island.[11] At the end of her life she was working with digitalized Polaroid.[12]

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.[13][14] She was a founding member of the group Photographers East.[15] She also led photography workshops at the Southampton Campus of Long Island University[16]

She died on June 20, 2004.[2]

Personal life

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Hoops married Richard Clemmer (1910–1980), whom she had met while working as a production assistant on One Man's Family and The Molly Goldberg Show, which Richard produced for NBC from 1949 to 1950.[2][17] An animal lover, she was founding member of the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons.[2] and took pet portraits for ARF's publicity and fundraising materials.[18]

Exhibitions

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By 1979, Hoops had participated in many group shows, including one at the Parrish Museum where she won the Judge's Award, and four one-woman shows at Long Island University, Guild Hall, and the Meisel Gallery in New York City.[6][3]

  • Impressions of Portugal and Spain (with Charlotte Jenkins). "[A color slide program] using a new technique for projecting pictures simultaneously on two screens."[19] (April 1967)
  • Impressions of Greece (with Charlotte Jenkins), Guild Hall of East Hampton, East Hampton, Long Island, NY, February 25, 1968[20]
  • It's Never Too Late, group exhibition, Guild Hall of East Hampton, East Hampton, Long Island, NY, September 1972[21]
  • Photographic Abstractions and Manipulations, August–September, 1992, East End Arts Council[22]
  • Jay Hoops: Polaroids, Wright State University: The Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, August 26, 2022 – November 1, 2022, Tracy Longley-Cook and Gary Beeber (curators)[23]
  • Jay Hoops: a Memorial Exhibition, Guild Hall of East Hampton, East Hampton, Long Island, NY, November 13 – December 12, 2004[24]

Notes

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  1. ↑ The Hawley & Hoops chocolate factory building now houses the Mulberry Street branch of the New York Public Library.

References

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  1. ↑ U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1; Birth Index, 1910-1965
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Jay Hoops". Southampton Press. July 1, 2004.
  3. 1 2 "Three New Exhibits Scheduled to Open Saturday at Guild Hall". Southampton Press. July 19, 1979.
  4. ↑ "New York Times Obituary". March 30, 1961.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ↑ Beeber, Gary (December 11, 2022). "JAY HOOPS: POLAROIDS". lenscratch.com.
  6. 1 2 "Audubon Prints to be Exhibited". Southampton Press. July 31, 1975. p. B2.
  7. ↑ "Jamaican steel band with native dancers [hand colored]". emory.edu. Emory University.
  8. ↑ "Snapshots". House & Garden. December 1949. p. 89.
  9. ↑ "Television Network". NBC Chimes. July 1952. p. 26.
  10. ↑ "Oils - Photography In College Exhibit". Southampton Press. February 20, 1964.
  11. ↑ Jay Hoops (photographer) (March 30, 1978). "Art Through Movement [Photograph]". The East Hampton Star. p. 9.
  12. ↑ "Hoops to Speak". Southampton Press. November 14, 2002.
  13. ↑ "Guild Hall News: Local Woman to Hostess Color Slide Program". Sag Harbor Express. April 27, 1967. p. 2.
  14. ↑ Whipple, Enez (1993). Guild Hall of East Hampton : an adventure in the arts, the first 60 years. East Hampton, N.Y.: Guild Hall of East Hampton. ISBN 978-0-8109-3384-2.
  15. ↑ Ernst, Eric (July 8, 2004). "More than just pretty pictures". Southampton Press. p. B7.
  16. ↑ "Photo Workshops". Southampton Press. November 11, 1993.
  17. ↑ The Class of 1933 (May 5, 1980). "Richard Walter Clemmer '33". Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 80. p. 36.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ↑ Jay Hoops (photographer) (December 16, 1976). "Give a gift of love this christmas [Photograph collage]". The East Hampton Star.
  19. ↑ "Again a Varied Guild Hall Schedule". The East Hampton Star. April 27, 1967. p. 6.
  20. ↑ "Guild Hall: Two Approaches to Greece". The East Hampton Star. February 22, 1968. p. 4.
  21. ↑ "Environment Exhibit at Guild Hall". The East Hampton Star. August 24, 1972.
  22. ↑ Robert Long (August 20, 1992). "Three Solid Group Shows". Southampton Press.
  23. ↑ "JAY HOOPS: POLAROIDS". 14 March 2022.
  24. ↑ "Guild Hall - Bringing the Arts Together". The East Hampton Star. November 11, 2004.
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