Photography has always been a part of Hilda
Stuart's life. Growing up on a rural Mississippi farm, she began
documenting family, church, local landscapes, and social gatherings in
the 1940s. During the mid-1950s she worked as an assistant at the George
Day Photography Studios in Philadelphia, Mississippi. While Stuart
embarked on a career in banking in the 1960s, she never surrendered her
camera. Hilda Stuart's photographs act as a lens into Mississippi in the
third quarter of the twentieth century, focused on her family,
prominent political campaigns, and traveling musicians. They are a
bridge between the musical and photographic worlds of her son, Marty
Stuart, documenting his early musical influences and developing career.
Marty Stuart, and his wife Connie, will join us at Off Square Books for the event.