Alice Rose George Explained

Alice Rose George
Birth Date:	October 23, 1944
Birth Place:	Silver Creek, Mississippi
Death Date:	December 22, 2020
Death Place:	Los Angeles, California
Occupation:	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

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. She learned to play piano and graduated from Monticello High School in 1962,^{[2] [3]} and from H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College in New Orleans in 1966, with a degree in English.^[4]

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. 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.^[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)
• 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)^[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

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.^[21]

External links

• • Alice Rose George, "Poem: Against Spring" Chronogram (April 1, 2012)

Notes and References

1. News: 1977-08-12. Services today at Monticello church for James George. 2. Hattiesburg American. 2021-12-01. Newspapers.com.
2. News: 1962-05-24. 48 Receive Diplomas at Monticello. 6. Clarion-Ledger. 2021-12-01. Newspapers.com.
3. News: 1961-09-23. Alice George is Lawrence Queen. 2. Clarion-Ledger. 2021-12-01. Newspapers.com.
4. News: Risen. Clay. 2021-01-12. Alice Rose George, a 'Photographer's Dream Editor,' Dies at 76. en-US. The New York Times. 2021-12-01. 0362-4331.
5. News: Timberlake. Cotten. 1986-01-17. Top execs become photo celebrities. 12. Lansing State Journal. 2021-12-01. Newspapers.com.
6. News: Laffoon. Polk. 1981-05-24. In a weekly shifting world, we strive for an identity. 82. Detroit Free Press. 2021-12-01. Newspapers.com.
7. Web site: Bengal. Rebecca. 2021-01-22. How Alice Rose George Shaped a Pivotal Era in Photography. 2021-12-01. Aperture. en-US.
8. "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. Web site: Four Poems by Alice Rose George. 2021-12-01. BOMB Magazine.
11. Web site: Alice Rose George. 2021-12-01. The Paris Review. en.
12. Web site: Alice Rose George, Author at Plume. 2021-12-01. Plume. en-US.
13. Web site: Colberg. Jörg. January 14, 2011. Conscientious Extended Conversations about Photobooks: Alice Rose George. 2021-12-01. Conscientiousness Extended.
14. Davis, Katie. "Photographers families portrayed in book" (November 29, 1992), Weekend All Things Considered. Washington, D.C.: NPR. via ProQuest
15. Book: Flesh & blood : photographers' images of their own families. 1992. Picture Project. Alice Rose George, Abigail Heyman, Ethan Hoffman, Friends of Photography. 0-9632551-0-X. New York. 25706375.
16. "Hardcovers in Brief" The Washington Post (February 2, 1997): X13. via ProQuest
17. Book: Twenty-five and under : photographers. 1997. Center for Documentary Studies in association with W.W. Norton. 0-393-31576-2. George. Alice Rose. New York. 34789747.
18. Book: Hope : photographs. 1998. Thames and Hudson. Alice Rose George, Lee Marks. 0-500-54228-7. New York. 40352080.
19. Zaleski, Jeff. "Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs" Publishers Weekly (September 23, 2002): 67. via ProQuest
20. Book: George, Alice Rose. Two eyes. 2015. 978-1-936672-91-2. Dexter, MI. 911068418.
21. Web site: Colberg. Jörg. Alice Rose George 1944-2020. 2021-12-01. Conscientious Photography Magazine. en.