A deeper, more poignant suffering is alluded to.

He sometimes photographs the stages on which people in survival mode act out their lives. But his photos require reflection and discernment. You might look at his photos of aspects of cities in New Jersey and say, вЂњSo what? Things look OK there.

If some of his work is about suffering, it is about the suffering and neglect which has traditionally seemed bearable and acceptable to most Americans, even the ones undergoing the suffering. His photos are not about abject poverty, exploitation or conspicuous injustice. Tice is not this type of urban documentarian. If you think of some of the most popular urban photographers before our contemporary era, you might think of Robert Frank or Lewis Hine, who had clear social agendas and who helped bring about necessary change. One reason he is not well-known among the general public is that he did not try to hit the viewer of his photos over the head with moral judgments or admonitions, yet he revealed significant truths about American urban society in a subtle and novel way by seeing something significant in the common place which others missed. George Tice is one of the most significant American photographers of the post-World War II era. He felt that the falls somehow symbolized Paterson itself. Close to 200 years afterwards, George Tice would have the first solo photography show ever at the MET Museum based on the images of dereliction and malaise in Paterson, New Jersey - the falls still grand but now heavily polluted. A few years later, after he helped create the Society for Manufacturing Useful Manufactures (1791), he would start Paterson, New Jersey as a prototype industrial hub. He, however, was not a lover of impressive landscapes he envisioned the powerful falls as the source of a model industrial city. During the Revolutionary War, Alexander Hamilton passed by the Great Falls of the Passaic in New Jersey and he never forgot their power and grandeur. Early mills and factories were built next to rivers or falls as these supplied the source of water used to create steam pressure to make the machines run.

Illuminate vintage