Jay Hoops Explained

Jay Hoops
Birth Name:Janet P. Hoops
Birth Place:New York City, U.S.
Occupation:Photographer

Jay Hoops (1919 – June 20, 2004) was an American photographer.[1]

Early life and education

Jay Hoops was born in New York City.[2] Her father, Herman William Hoops, was a partner at Hawley & Hoops, a chocolate and confectionery company in Lower Manhattan.[3] [4]

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.[5]

Career

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.[6] During its first years, Jay Hoops Studios also sold enamel-finished cigarette boxes with photographs on them.[7] 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[8] and maintained studios in New York City and Schinnecock Hills.[9] 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.[10] At the end of her life she was working with digitalized Polaroid.[11]

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.[12] [13] She was a founding member of the group Photographers East.[14] She also led photography workshops at the Southampton Campus of Long Island University[15]

She died on June 20, 2004.

Personal life

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.[16] An animal lover, she was founding member of the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons. and took pet portraits for ARF's publicity and fundraising materials.[17]

Exhibitions

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.[2]

Notes and References

  1. News: July 1, 2004. Jay Hoops. Southampton Press.
  2. News: . July 19, 1979. Three New Exhibits Scheduled to Open Saturday at Guild Hall. Southampton Press.
  3. Web site: JAY HOOPS: POLAROIDS . Beeber . Gary . December 11, 2022 . lenscratch.com .
  4. The Hawley & Hoops chocolate factory building now houses the Mulberry Street branch of the New York Public Library.
  5. News: . July 31, 1975. Audubon Prints to be Exhibited . Southampton Press. B2 .
  6. Web site: Jamaican steel band with native dancers [hand colored]]. . emory.edu. Emory University.
  7. . Snapshots. House & Garden. December 1949. 89.
  8. News: . July 1952. Television Network . NBC Chimes . 26.
  9. News: . February 20, 1964. Oils - Photography In College Exhibit. Southampton Press.
  10. News: Jay Hoops (photographer) . March 30, 1978. Art Through Movement [Photograph] ]. The East Hampton Star. 9 .
  11. News: . November 14, 2002 . Hoops to Speak. Southampton Press .
  12. News: . April 27, 1967. Guild Hall News: Local Woman to Hostess Color Slide Program. Sag Harbor Express. 2 .
  13. Book: 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 . 978-0-8109-3384-2.
  14. News: Ernst . Eric . July 8, 2004 . More than just pretty pictures. Southampton Press. B7 .
  15. News: . November 11, 1993 . Photo Workshops. Southampton Press .
  16. News: The Class of 1933 . May 5, 1980. Richard Walter Clemmer '33 . Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 80. 36 .
  17. News: Jay Hoops (photographer) . December 16, 1976. Give a gift of love this christmas [Photograph collage] ]. The East Hampton Star.
  18. News: . April 27, 1967. Again a Varied Guild Hall Schedule. The East Hampton Star. 6 .
  19. News: . February 22, 1968. Guild Hall: Two Approaches to Greece . The East Hampton Star. 4 .
  20. News: . August 24, 1972 . Environment Exhibit at Guild Hall . The East Hampton Star.
  21. News: Robert Long . August 20, 1992. Three Solid Group Shows . Southampton Press.
  22. Web site: JAY HOOPS: POLAROIDS . . 14 March 2022.
  23. News: . November 11, 2004. Guild Hall - Bringing the Arts Together. The East Hampton Star.

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