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

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, the daughter of James George and Louise Fairman George. Her parents were farmers; her mother was also a trained pianist. She learned to play piano and graduated from Monticello High School in 1962, and from

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in New Orleans in 1966, with a degree in English.

Career

George was assistant photo editor at ''

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'' magazine in the late 1960s. Throughout her career in magazines (including ''

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''), she nurtured and promoted early-career photographers, including

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, Lisa Kereszi,

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, and

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. In 1997, she was on the staff of the

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."New in Paperback" ''The Washington Post'' (May 18, 1997): X12. In the aftermath of the

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, 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''. George was also a poet whose work appeared in ''

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'', and in two collections, ''Ceiling of the World'' (1995) and ''Two Eyes'' (2015). She taught in the MFA program at the

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Publications

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

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.

References

External links

* * Alice Rose George
"Poem: Against Spring"
''Chronogram'' (April 1, 2012) * {{DEFAULTSORT:George, Alice Rose 1944 births 2020 deaths American photographers American women photographers American editors American women editors American curators American women curators American women writers People from Lawrence County, Mississippi H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College alumni University of Hartford faculty 21st-century American women