Jump to content

Alice Rose George

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alice Rose George
fair use image only
BornOctober 23, 1944
Silver Creek, Mississippi
DiedDecember 22, 2020
Los Angeles, California
Occupation(s)Writer, poet, curator, photography editor

Alice Rose George (October 23, 1944 – December 22, 2020) was an American writer, poet, curator, and photography editor.

Early life

[edit]

Alice Rose George was born in Silver Creek, Mississippi, the daughter of James George and Louise Fairman George. Her parents were farmers;[1] her mother was also a trained pianist.[2] She learned to play piano and graduated from Monticello High School in 1962,[3][4] and from H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans in 1966, with a degree in English.[2]

Career

[edit]

George was assistant photo editor at Time magazine in the late 1960s. Throughout her career in magazines (including Fortune and GEO),[5][6] she nurtured and promoted early-career photographers, including Mitch Epstein, Peter Hujar, Duane Michals, Gilles Peress, Alec Soth, Nan Goldin, Jim Goldberg,[7] Susan Meiselas, Lisa Kereszi, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and Joel Sternfeld.[2] In 1997, she was on the staff of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.[8] In the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, she co-curated an exhibition of professional and amateur photographs documenting life in New York City, with proceeds benefiting a relief fund; that show became a book, Here is New York.[9]

George was also a poet whose work appeared in Bomb,[10] The Paris Review,[11] The New Republic, and The Atlantic, and in two collections, Ceiling of the World (1995)[12] and Two Eyes (2015). She taught in the MFA program at the University of Hartford.[2][13]

Publications

[edit]
  • Flesh and Blood: Photographers' Images of Their Own Families (1992, photography, edited with Abigail Heyman and Ethan Hoffman)[14][15]
  • Ceiling of the World (1995, poems)[12]
  • A New Life: Stories and Photographs from the Suburban South (1997, co-edited with Alex Harris)[16]
  • Twenty-five and Under: Photographers (1997, co-edited with Robert Coles)[8][17]
  • Hope Photographs (1998, photography, with Lee Marks)[18]
  • Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs (2002, photography, co-edited with Gilles Peress, Michael Shulan, and Charles H. Traub)[19]
  • Two Eyes (2015, poems)[20]

Personal life

[edit]

George was living in Los Angeles at the time of her death in December 2020, from a head injury after a fall. She was 76 years old.[2][21]

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Services today at Monticello church for James George". Hattiesburg American. 1977-08-12. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-12-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b c d e Risen, Clay (2021-01-12). "Alice Rose George, a 'Photographer's Dream Editor,' Dies at 76". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  3. ^ "48 Receive Diplomas at Monticello". Clarion-Ledger. 1962-05-24. p. 6. Retrieved 2021-12-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Alice George is Lawrence Queen". Clarion-Ledger. 1961-09-23. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-12-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ Timberlake, Cotten (1986-01-17). "Top execs become photo celebrities". Lansing State Journal. p. 12. Retrieved 2021-12-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Laffoon, Polk (1981-05-24). "In a weekly shifting world, we strive for an identity". Detroit Free Press. p. 82. Retrieved 2021-12-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Bengal, Rebecca (2021-01-22). "How Alice Rose George Shaped a Pivotal Era in Photography". Aperture. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  8. ^ a b "New in Paperback" The Washington Post (May 18, 1997): X12. via ProQuest
  9. ^ Ho, Dorothy. "Here is New York, by New York" PDN: Photo District News 21(December 2001): 54-56. via ProQuest
  10. ^ "Four Poems by Alice Rose George". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  11. ^ "Alice Rose George". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  12. ^ a b "Alice Rose George, Author at Plume". Plume. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  13. ^ Colberg, Jörg (January 14, 2011). "Conscientious Extended | Conversations about Photobooks: Alice Rose George". Conscientiousness Extended. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  14. ^ Davis, Katie. "Photographers families portrayed in book" (November 29, 1992), Weekend All Things Considered. Washington, D.C.: NPR. via ProQuest
  15. ^ Flesh & blood : photographers' images of their own families. Alice Rose George, Abigail Heyman, Ethan Hoffman, Friends of Photography. New York: Picture Project. 1992. ISBN 0-9632551-0-X. OCLC 25706375.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  16. ^ "Hardcovers in Brief" The Washington Post (February 2, 1997): X13. via ProQuest
  17. ^ George, Alice Rose, ed. (1997). Twenty-five and under : photographers. New York: Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-31576-2. OCLC 34789747.
  18. ^ Hope : photographs. Alice Rose George, Lee Marks. New York: Thames and Hudson. 1998. ISBN 0-500-54228-7. OCLC 40352080.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  19. ^ Zaleski, Jeff. "Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs" Publishers Weekly (September 23, 2002): 67. via ProQuest
  20. ^ George, Alice Rose (2015). Two eyes. Dexter, MI. ISBN 978-1-936672-91-2. OCLC 911068418.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  21. ^ Colberg, Jörg. "Alice Rose George 1944-2020". Conscientious Photography Magazine. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
[edit]
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice_Rose_George&oldid=1177284074"