Elvis, 2001, Tupelo, Mississippi
bodies of work will be exhibited in the Conte Community Gallery at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts May 9–November 2, 2014. Stuart’s photographic career was sparked on his first trip to New York City while touring with Flatt. There, in a Greenwich Village bookstore, he saw black-and-white photographs of jazz greats made by the renowned bass player and photographer Milt Hinton. Stuart knew he could do for country music what Hinton had done for jazz, and the timing was perfect. He borrowed a camera from his mother, Hilda Stuart, a photographer of considerable talent, and began making photographs of his fellow performers. As Stuart’s interest in the medium intensified, he was drawn to the work of Nashville photographers Ed Clark, Jim McGuire, and Les Leverett, particularly their images in black and white. The
George Jones, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris, 1994, Mount Juliet, TN
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