Curated by Kristen Lubben

With his poetic evocations of industrialized northern New Jersey from the late ’60s and early ’70s, George Tice seems an unlikely choice of weapon for the International Center of Photography’s critically armed new curatorial regime. But there is an undeniable appeal to the photographer’s finely printed black-and-white pictures of nearly deserted urban oases like a White Castle burger joint and a Mobil gas station. Tice’s reputation took a hit with the rise of a less romantic landscape style epitomized by Robert Adams and Lewis Baltz, and his life and work have taken some curious turns, too (e.g., his 1977 social-reportage book Artie Van Blarcum). Still, this exhibition organized by the ICP’s Kristen Lubben shows that his heart belongs to Jersey.

— Andy Grundberg