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Alice Rose George

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Alice Rose George
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Born(1944-10-23)October 23, 1944
Silver Creek, Mississippi
DiedDecember 22, 2020(2020-12-22) (aged 76)
Los Angeles, California
OccupationsWriter, poet, curator, photography editor

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

Early life

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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

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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

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  • 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

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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

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  1. ↑ "Services today at Monticello church for James George". Hattiesburg American. 1977-08-12. p. 2. Retrieved 2021-12-01 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 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. 1 2 "New in Paperback" The Washington Post (May 18, 1997): X12.
  9. ↑ Ho, Dorothy. "Here is New York, by New York" PDN: Photo District News 21(December 2001): 54-56.
  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. 1 2 "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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
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