George Tice
1938 -
Archive contact: Lisa Tice (lisatice1@gmail.com)
George Tice (born 1938 Newark, New Jersey) is a tenth generation New Jerseyan. He began photographing in 1953, when he joined a local camera club.
Fields of Peace 1970, (Godine, 1998), Paterson (1972), and George Tice: Urban Landscapes (2002) are among his most celebrated books. His photographs are included in over 80 public collections worldwide, and his numerous exhibitions include one-man shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1972), The National Museum of Photography, Film, & Television, (England 1990-1991), and The International Center of Photography (2002). He has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bradford Fellowship (England), and the New Jersey State Council of the Arts. Recent awards include the Golden Light Award from the Maine Photographic Workshops for George Tice: Urban Landscapes, which also won the Honor Book award from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities.
In 2003, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from William Paterson University. His recent collection Paterson II was published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Newark Museum in 2006. Ticetown (2007) is the result of Tice's quest to find his ancestors. A revision of Seacoast Maine (Godine) was published in 2009.