Research Catalog

Title

The Pueblo imagination : landscape and memory in the photography of Lee Marmon / with writings by Leslie Marmon Silko, Joy Harjo and Simon Ortiz.

Author

Marmon, Lee.

Publication

Boston : Beacon Press, ©2003.

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Details

Description

159 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.

Summary

• "Lee Marmon, known as "the blue-eyed Indian," is America's most renowned Native American photographer, and this is the first book to showcase his breathtaking work. At the age of ten, living on the Laguna Pueblo lands of New Mexico, Lee entered the ranks of professional photographers when he earned two dollars for photographing a truck wreck for a local insurance company.
• The photo shoot had been his father's idea; he handed his son a camera and said, "Go to it." Being given the camera and earning money for his photographs was prophetic for Lee, but at the time he never expected that this early experience would be the catalyst for a career that has spanned decades."
• "While serving in the army in Alaska, a landscape so utterly different from the New Mexico desert, Marmon made a promise to himself. He decided he would get a camera if it was the last thing he did, and he would use his talent to record his world and his people. When he returned home after the war, he bought his first Speed Graphic camera and photographed everything."
• "This book comprises the jewels of Lee Marmon's award-winning life's work, celebrating the Laguna Pueblo people and their distinctive landscapes, traditions, and history. The images are paired with equally evocative prose and poetry by three of our most celebrated Native American writers: Marmon's daughter, novelist Leslie Marmon Silko, and poets Joy Harjo and Simon Ortiz. With each flash of his camera, Lee Marmon captured a piece of Native American history; this book preserves that precious legacy."--Jacket.

Subject

• Laguna Indians > Pictorial works
• Laguna Indians
• Pueblo of Laguna (N.M.) > Pictorial works
• Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works.
• Pictorial works.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

ISBN

• 0807066141
• 9780807066140

LCCN

2003005916

OCLC

• ocm51878531
• 51878531
• SCSB-1426777

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library