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Julie Moos: Hat Ladies
First exhibition of complete series
4/25/2004 - 7/25/2004
Using a 4 x 5 camera, simple lighting and a traveling studio,
photographer Julie Moos has created a series of large-scale, formal
portraits of women who belong to the New Pilgrim Baptist Church in
the African-American community of Ensley, a neighborhood of
Birmingham, Alabama. These magnificently dressed women are paired
together in portraits that both honor their importance as cultural
leaders and celebrate their desire to praise the Lord each Sunday,
crowned with stunning hats of fur, felt or straw, adorned with
feathers, artificial flowers, or clusters of sparkling sequins and
rhinestones.
The exhibition, which consists of eighteen chromogenic color prints
each measuring 40 x 52 inches, represents the first time that all
eighteen images in the series are shown together. Their installation
together recreates the sense of community shared by these "hat
sisters." Julie Moos' work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial
in New York, and she has had solo exhibitions at the Birmingham
Museum of Art, the Renaissance Society in Chicago, The Contemporary
Museum of Art in Honolulu, and Photo Espaņa in Madrid.
Curator of Photography Virginia Heckert notes, "Julie Moos
represents an important voice among artists who have chosen
photography as their medium. By pairing together her subjects, she
draws the viewers attention away from the interaction between
photographer and sitter to that between sitters and thus underscores
the psychological complexities of photographic portraiture."
Julie Moos will lecture at the Norton Museum of Art on Sunday, April
25th at 3:00 p.m.
This exhibition was originally organized in 2002 by the Birmingham
Museum of Art, Alabama. It has been reassembled by the Norton Museum
of Art (in cooperation with the Fredericks Freiser Gallery) for
presentation in West Palm Beach. Local support has been provided in
part by the Daphne Seybolt Culpeper Foundation. Media support is
provided by Palm Beach Illustrated.
Also on view in the Museum's Mizner Gallery will be a selection from
the artist's most recent body of work, Radiant, which depicts a
group of sixth grade students from the Birmingham Elementary School
as they prepare for a theatrical performance of Charlotte's Web.
Using both a video camera and a Polaroid camera, Moos delivers a
compelling statement about the notion of the "decisive moment" and
the interaction of portraiture and performance.
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