Alice Rose George
American writer, poet, curator, and photography editor (1944–2020)
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Alice Rose George (October 23, 1944 – December 22, 2020) was an American writer, poet, curator, and photography editor.
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| Born | October 23, 1944 Silver Creek, Mississippi |
| Died | December 22, 2020 (aged 76) Los Angeles, California |
| Occupations | Writer, poet, curator, photography editor |
Early life
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
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
- 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]