Maggie Steber Photography collection

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Maggie Steber Photography collection

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  • 1986-2010 (Vervaardig)

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44 Photographs

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(1949-)

Biografie

Maggie Steber is a documentary photographer who has worked in 63 countries around the world. Born and raised in Texas, she worked as a reporter and photographer at the Galveston Daily News in her early career before working as a picture editor for the Associated Press in New York. She was a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine for four years, and her work has been published in Life, National Geographic, the New Yorker, People, Time, Sports Illustrated, and Smithsonian, among others. Steber served as the Assistant Managing Editor of Photography and Features at the Miami Herald from 1999-2002, and 2007, she received a grant from the Knight Foundation to design a new newspaper prototype through the new Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami. Her work in Haiti won the Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant and the Ernest Haas Grant, culminating in her 1991 publication, Dancing on Fire: Photographs From Haiti. Steber’s work is exhibited widely in museums around the world, and she has won numerous awards, including the World Press Foundation Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, and an Overseas Press Club honor. She has also judged numerous photo competitions, including the World Press Photo Foundation, and the National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year.

Maggie Steberis a documentary photographer who has worked in 63 countries around the world. Born and raised in Texas, she worked as a reporter and photographer at the Galveston Daily News in her early career before working as a picture editor for the Associated Press in New York. She was a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine for four years, and her work has been published in Life, National Geographic, the New Yorker, People, Time, Sports Illustrated, and Smithsonian, among others. Steber served as the Assistant Managing Editor of Photography and Features at the Miami Herald from 1999-2002, and 2007, she received a grant from the Knight Foundation to design a new newspaper prototype through the new Knight Center for International Media at the University of Miami. Her work in Haiti won the Alicia Patterson Foundation Grant and the Ernest Haas Grant, culminating in her 1991 publication, Dancing on Fire: Photographs From Haiti. Steber<s work is exhibited widely in museums around the world, and she has won numerous awards, including the World Press Foundation Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, and an Overseas Press Club honor. She has also judged numerous photo competitions, including the World Press Photo Foundation, and the National Press Photographers Association Pictures of the Year.

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Bereik en inhoud

The Maggie Steber Photography Collection contains thirty-three signed and dated 11x14 inch color prints on art paper and eleven large framed (33 1/4" x 43 3/4") prints. The collection documents photojournalist Maggie Steber's work in Haiti from 1986 to 2010.

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The collection is open for research.

Physical access

Items from this collection are kept on-campus and may be requested from the first floor Kislak Center in the Otto G. Richter Library at University of Miami.

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Copyright is owned by Maggie Steber. Requests to publish or display materials from this collection require written permission from the rights owner. Please, contact asc.library@miami.edu for more information.

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  • Engels

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Collaborative Archives from the African Diaspora (CAAD) documents acquired thanks to a grant from the Florida Blue Cross Blue Shield, Summer 2013.

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Haitian Diaspora Oral Histories

The Audacity of Beauty – Maggie Steber and Her 25-Year Relationship with Haiti

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