Maggie Steber

Last updated
Maggie Steber
Born
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Texas
Known for Photography
Awards Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant, Ernst Haas Grant, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Grant, Guggenheim Foundation Grant, Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Lucie Award
Website maggiesteber.com

Maggie Steber is an American documentary photographer. [1] Her work has documented a wide range of issues, including the African slave trade, Native American issues in the United States, natural disasters, and science. [2]

Contents

Steber has produced the book Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti. She is a member of VII Photo Agency and has been awarded a first prize World Press Photo award and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Life and work

Steber was born in Texas. [1] She studied journalism and art at the University of Texas at Austin. [1] Early in her career, she lived and worked in Galveston, Texas, working as a reporter and photographer for The Galveston Daily News and as a picture editor for Associated Press in New York City. [3] Steber was a director of photography for the Miami Herald and is a contributor to magazines including Life, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, People, Newsweek, Time, Sports Illustrated, The Sunday Times Magazine, and Merian Magazine of Germany. [3]

Steber has worked in Haiti for over 25 years documenting the history and culture of the Haitian people. [4] Her essays on Haiti have appeared in The New York Times and she has a monograph titled Dancing on Fire: Photographs from Haiti. [2]

National Geographic has published her essays on Miami, the African slave trade, the Cherokee Nation, sleep, soldiers’ letters, Dubai and a story on the science of memory. [2] Steber was one of eleven photographers included in National Geographic's 2013 exhibition, Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment. [5]

Steber is a member of VII Photo Agency. [6] She is also a member of Facing Change Documenting America, a group of civic-minded photographers covering important American issues. [2] [7] She currently lives in Miami, Florida.

Publications

Publications by Steber

Publications with contributions by Steber

Awards

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lennart Nilsson</span> Swedish photographer

Lennart Nilsson was a Swedish photographer noted for his photographs of human embryos and other medical subjects once considered unphotographable, and more generally for his extreme macro photography. He was also considered to be among Sweden’s first modern photojournalists.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harry Callahan (photographer)</span> American photographer and educator

Harry Morey Callahan was an American photographer and educator. He taught at both the Institute of Design in Chicago and the Rhode Island School of Design.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Terry O'Neill (photographer)</span> British photographer (1938–2019)

Terence Patrick O'Neill was a British photographer, known for documenting the fashions, styles, and celebrities of the 1960s. O'Neill's photographs capture his subjects candidly or in unconventional settings.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aaron Siskind</span> American photographer

Aaron Siskind was an American photographer whose work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved with, if not a part of, the abstract expressionist movement, and was close friends with painters Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning.

Joel Sternfeld is an American fine-art photographer. He is best known for his large-format color pictures of contemporary American life and identity. His work contributed to the establishment of color photography as a respected artistic medium. Furthering the tradition of roadside photography started by Walker Evans in the 1930s, Sternfeld documents people and places with unexpected excitement, despair, tenderness, and hope. Ever since the 1987 publication of his landmark “American Prospects,” Sternfeld’s work has interwoven the conceptual and political, while being steeped in history, landscape theory and his passion for the passage of the seasons. Sternfeld’s is a beautiful and sad portrait of America - ironic, lyrical, unfinished, seeing without judging.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paul Graham (photographer)</span> English photographer

Paul Graham is a British fine-art and documentary photographer. He has published three survey monographs, along with 17 other publications.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Bill Owens (photographer)</span> American journalist

Bill Owens is an American photographer, photojournalist, brewer and editor living in Hayward, California. He is best known for his photographs of suburban domestic scenes taken in the East Bay and published in the book Suburbia (1973). Owens is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts Grants.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elinor Carucci</span> Israeli-American photographer (born 1971)

Elinor Carucci is an Israeli-American photographer and educator, living in New York City, noted for her intimate porayals of her family's lives. She has published four monographs; Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013) and Midlife (2019). She teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Bruce Gilden is an American street photographer. He is best known for his candid close-up photographs of people on the streets of New York City, using a flashgun. He has had various books of his work published, has received the European Publishers Award for Photography and is a Guggenheim Fellow. Gilden has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1998. He was born in Brooklyn, New York.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Benson (photographer)</span> American photographer and printer.

Richard Mead Atwater Benson was an American photographer, printer, and educator who used photographic processing techniques of the past and present.

Alex Majoli is an Italian photographer known for his documentation of war and conflict. He is a member of Magnum Photos. Majoli's work focuses on the human condition and the theater within our daily lives.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alex Webb (photographer)</span> American photographer

Alex Webb is a photographer who makes vibrant and complex color photographs. He has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1979.

Leo Rubinfien is an American photographer and essayist who lives and works in New York City. Rubinfien first came to prominence as part of the circle of artist-photographers who investigated new color techniques and materials in the 1970s.

Lynn Johnson is an American photographer known for her contributions to National Geographic, Sports Illustrated and Life among others. Johnson is known for photographing vanishing languages and challenges to the human condition, with a focus on Africa and Asia.

Alessandra Sanguinetti is an American photographer. A number of her works have been published and she is a member of Magnum Photos. She has received multiple awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Deana Lawson (1979) is an American artist, educator, and photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is primarily concerned with intimacy, family, spirituality, sexuality, and Black aesthetics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Steinmetz</span> American photographer

Mark Christopher Steinmetz is an American photographer. He makes black and white photographs "of ordinary people in the ordinary landscapes they inhabit".

Mark Ruwedel is an American landscape photographer and educator.

Alys Tomlinson is a British photographer. She has published the books Following Broadway (2013), Ex-Voto (2019), Lost Summer (2020) and Gli Isolani (2022). For Ex-Voto she won the Photographer of the Year award at the 2018 Sony World Photography Awards. Portraits from Lost Summer won First prize in the 2020 Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize.

Mimi Plumb, also known as Mimi Plumb-Chambers, is an American photographer and educator, living in Berkeley, California. Plumb is part of a long tradition of socially engaged documentary photographers concerned with California. She has published three books, Landfall (2018), The White Sky (2020), and The Golden City (2021).

References

  1. 1 2 3 Powell, Jim (14 November 2013). "Maggie Steber's best photograph: Hunger Overcomes Fear". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-01-17 via www.theguardian.com.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Maggie Steber Biography :: National Geographic's Women of Vision". National Geographic . Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  3. 1 2 3 "Photographer Maggie Steber Biography -- National Geographic". National Geographic . 2017-04-25. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  4. McVeigh, Tracy (24 May 2014). "War photographers are unique, driven and talented - without them the world would be blind". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-01-17 via www.theguardian.com.
  5. Richardson, Whitney (10 October 2013). "Women on the Front Lines and Behind the Lens". Lens Blog. The New York Times . Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  6. "Maggie Steber". VII Photo Agency. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
  7. "Facing Change: documenting America – in pictures". The Guardian. 28 October 2015. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2019-01-17 via www.theguardian.com.
  8. "Maggie Steber". World Press Photo. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
  9. "Maggie Steber". Alicia Patterson Foundation. Accessed 12 March 2017
  10. "Maggie Steber". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2019-01-17.