Maggie Steber

http://imagedeconstructed.com/post/spotlight-on-maggie-steber

Maggie Steber is an award-winning American photographer noted for her work with National Georgraphic magazine. The website The Image, Deconstructed ran a feature on her body of photographs, especially in regards to an article she did for National Geographic on the subject of memory. The images shown in this feature are touching and saddening, many of them shot in a sepia color scheme to evoke wistful and nostalgic emotions. The image of an old, withered, and apparently disembodied hand appearing from within a sea of bedsheets, for instance, is just as disturbing as it is depressing, though one is unable to explain exactly why this is show. There is something metaphysical about Steber's photographs which make them seem superior to the normal experience of man. They are magical, aetherial, and entirely human.