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Alice Rose George made her name as a photography editor and curator, but she was also a poet, pianist and sometime painter. She had a great sense of style.

Though she was not a photographer herself she knew great photography when she saw it, whether as an art form or in images of journalistic value. She is credited with giving photojournalism a new direction, beginning in the 1970s, both by marrying words and pictures in a more personal way in magazine layouts and by encouraging young photographers to make more innovative images. In the world of art photography (books and collections), she was an admired curator, consultant and editor. Her long career spanned most aspects of photography; she had an expertise few can claim.

Her lifelong affiliation with the South (she was born in Mississippi) and her love of both family and friends, formed a major part of her identity and helped to give her a remarkable ability to bring people together, professionally and personally.

Her teaching was essential to her. She was a born mentor and loved young people, helping them put together their portfolios of images and seeing in them great hope for the future. The two wellsprings of imagery — poetry and photography — provided the resources she needed to make a difference in the way photography is valued today.