George is hard at work on his Kickstarter Project, “The Way We Were,” he’s already chosen 10 silver gelatin prints for the book he is working on – a collection of his brilliant photographs of New York before 911. Life Magazine has featured George’s photos on their website, you can check out his Kickstarter project here. To date, George has raised more than $12,500 with more than two weeks of funding to go. George’s photographs are a bit hit, Kickstarter shows us how the Internet is changing the interactions between people and artists. Before this, there was only one place to go to see George’s wonderful photographs, that was his gallery. Now there are several ways and people are responding.

I keep explaining to George that people don’t need gatekeepers to tell them what they like anymore, they can actually follow the art from beginning to end, even help to create it. They call it crowdsourcing, I call it democratic funding.

I’ve never seen George so excited and focused, he is up early and in his darkroom all morning, he has chosen his prints, working hard to develop them carefully and beautifully, steam-pressing them to flatten them out. I usually go over to his darkroom in the afternoon to see them, it is a beautiful thing to see and a joyous thing to see how hard he is working on this book, it will be a gorgeous book. By pledging $100 or more, you can not only help George publish his works, you will also receive a signed copy. It’s a great deal.

I showed George my new camera today, he liked it. “You’re going to do some damage with it,” he said. You can see his Kickstarter project and contribute to it if you wish here.