George Tais dies with “New Jersey Bard” and a camera, 86

On August 18, 1959, George Tais exploded in the Bay Bay in the Atlar in the Atlar of about 250 miles from Norfolk, Virginia, and was a naval photographer of the aircraft airline WASP.

He hurriedly got the camera on the flight deck, took a picture of the sailor turned off the fire with a helicopter and was pushed out of the ship. The Navy stated that an accident occurred when a helicopter engine was “over -speed” during the test, exploding, and consuming the other two helicopters in the flame. Two men were killed and 21 were injured.

One of the dramatic photos of the scene was Shinjikating by AP communication and ran on the front page of the New York Times. The famous photographer of the Museum of Museum of Modern Art, New York, was attracting attention for Edward Styhen.

A wide range of recognition of his artisticness -Most of his work, most of his work, is compared to the Walker Evans documentary photograph and the realism of Edward Hopper's paintings -for a while. After discharge from the Navy, TICE became a portrait photographer of a child and family.

But he was starting to spend time in Patterson, New Jersey. There, in an industrial city under He, he found beauty in Prosaic. Passay waterfall. A car sold on a private road. rooftop.

Thais stood on Garett Mountain on the city of Parkland and was attracted to Patterson as the subject. From there, Patterson said to the Times in 2002 that it looked like a “city miniature model.” It is all surrounded. That is the location itself. “

He was able to leave a portrait photo in 1970. The prints of the Armish Country in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and began to be sold at the Witukin Gallery in Manhattan because he was in the moonlit.

His reputation grew quickly, and his photos appeared in magazines and national exhibitions. His photo was exhibited in the New Arc New Jersey History Association in 1971, and one year later, it was a solo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. The photo of that year was reproduced in the “Patterson” book that year.

For the next half a century, TICE began to be considered a bard in a photograph of New Jersey, traveling in the state with his bulky 8×10 view camera and photographing the scenery of the city. These include a phone booth in Loway, lighting at 3:00 am, but was covered with darkness. The white castle in Roway, also caught from behind at night, looks like a desolate and desolate small hamburger in front of a small hamburger. And his most famous photo is a mobil station in Cherry Hill, which was taken at night, with a huge water tower approaching the background like an alien spacecraft.

“Now, Thais has done many of his biggest jobs in New Jersey, so he has become a pHOR of the state. In 1981 TICE's work at Woodman Gallery in Morristown, New Jersey.

Thais lived in the southeast of Middle Town and died at home on January 16 at home.

Until a few days before his death, Tice, Masterplinter, still hoped to revise his book, Lifework (2022), a career retrospective exhibition.

“I took me aside,” said Thai Spanoli, “And he said,” I want to see my book again. ” He was still criticizing it and wanted to perfect it. “

It was a typical labor ethics in his dark room.

“He never gave up,” said his daughter in an interview. “Since I am in the dark room with him, we evaluate the photos, and he says,” I think we need to make some changes. ” But he will say “no”, and we do it many times. “

George Andrew Tais was born in New Arc on October 13, 1938. His parents were divorced when he was very young, and he was raised as a member of his mother, Margaret (Robertson) Thais, and Irish travelers. His mother lived in Ireland linen from the door to the door, and the family lived mainly in Trailer Park in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida. She later remarried.

From the age of 6 to 16, George sold crepe paper roses on both themselves and parent Relative.

His father, William Tiss, was an insurance company. He is also an amateur photographer, and his album ignited George's passion for storytelling through photos.

“He was able to show his 12 albums until he was born to his death,” Tice said in an interview with the 1996 View Camera Magazine visual artist, John Paul Caponigro. “I thought it was incredible.”

As a teenager, George exchanged a 35 ml Kodak pony from the Kodak Brownie Camera. Participated in a camera club in Curtellet, New Jersey, and I was impressed by other members. He turned his family trailer into a dark room and turned his stepfather John Haan's regret. I photographed the men who fell down in the manhattan bowery. I worked as a dark room assistant in the photo studio.

At the age of 17, he joined the Navy. He was sent for training in a photo lab before being assigned to his career WASP.

The aftermath of the WASP EXPLOSION -the frame full of desperate sailors in the emergency will be an unusual entry in Tice's work. People do not appear in most of his photos after New Jersey. However, there were exceptions. Armish boys wearing black and playing in the snow. A small boy standing at Tallinn, Estonia, seems to be alert to approach him. Jersey City's houseboat couple.

Tice has made a living by selling many books about Amish and Mennonite, mainly “A PEACE OF PEACE: A Pennsylvania German Album” (1970). “Lincoln” (1984), a tribute to the 16th President named after him and the statue of the motel, car, and other objects. “Stone wall, gray sky: Yorkshire's Vision” (1993) records staying in the UK.

“The Lincoln book did not happen until I met Lincoln Motel and Abe's Disco,” Thais told Central New Jersey Home News in 1984. All of the new arcs are illuminated with neon and flashlights. My mission was clear. I travel to the United States looking for Lincoln. “

In addition to Tice-Spagnoli, he survived by Loretta, Lisa Tice and Lynnn Mesler, the other three daughters. My son, Christopher, was divorced from the marriage of Joanna Blaylock. Three brothers, Jack, Robert Han and Glen Tais. Nine grandchildren. Eight Great grandchildren. The third marriage ended with a divorce.

Thais, who has a photo in many museum collections, received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Fund in 1973. He was the theme of Bruce Woodder's documentary “George Taiis: Seaing the Most” (2013).

In the movie, Tice explained his emphasis on what was common, not the magnificent photograph.

“The daily life of life will be an eternal hindrance,” he said. “I'm thinking about how this photo will be seen in the future when the theme is no longer endured.

“In fact, taking pictures is to stop the world.”