Paterson II - Hardcover

Tice, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 159372022X ISBN 13: 9781593720223

Publisher: Quantuck Lane, 2006

Synopsis

A 10th-generation native of New Jersey, renowned photographer George Tice began his thirty-year documentation of the vernacular architecture of his home state with Paterson in 1972, which formed part of his acclaimed one-man show at Metropolitan Museum of Art. His most iconic images from this exploration are White Castle, Route 1, Rahway, N.J., and Petit's Mobil Station, Cherry Hill, N.J. In Paterson II, Tice revisits his source of inspiration, adding scores of new images, and making an eloquent statement about time and change in a small Northeastern city. 77 quadratone photographs.

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About the Author:

George Tice has published more than a dozen photographic collections over the past forty years. A professor of photography and printing techniques at The New School in New York City, his work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Art Institute of Chicago, International Center of Photography, the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, the Columbus Museum of Art, and Bibliotheque Nationale, in Paris. He lives in Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey. A. D. Coleman is a distinguished writer of photographic history and criticism; his most recent collection is Available Light. He lives in Staten island, New York.

From Booklist:

Besides his brilliant book on the Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Fields of Peace (1970), photographer Tice's best-known project is his black-and-white documentation of Paterson, New Jersey. In this sequel to Paterson (1972), a dozen images of the city contemporary to that book (whether they appeared in it isn't stated) constitute a visual preface to 81 pictures from 30 years later. The earlier photos also serve for assessing the future in light of the past. Comparing the old and the new, it seems that Paterson is still the down-at-heels former industrial center Tice found in the late 1960s, beautifully situated amid low mountains and around a powerful waterfall once used, as Paterson's original planners intended, to power textile mills and monumentally depicted by Tice, as are several weather-sculpted boulders in the principal public park. Unlike earlier, there are people and cars in the streets now, though their faces are notably non-Western European: new immigrants have brought new life. Art more concerned with the impressiveness of persistence than with immediately obvious beauty. Ray Olson
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About this edition

• Publisher: Quantuck Lane
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 159372022X
• ISBN 13: 9781593720223
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 128