In The Manger, Käsebier dissolves subject into atmosphere—mother and child wrapped in veils of light, as if emerging from or returning to spirit. The image recalls Renaissance nativity scenes but stripped of ornament and placed in a rustic, almost abstract space. It is devotional but not didactic. What radiates here is not faith as doctrine, but intimacy as sacrament. Käsebier, a mother herself, uses photography to enshrine maternal grace as both personal and archetypal—tender, veiled, and quietly eternal.
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