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The Lee Marmon VHS For the past fifty years, Lee Marmon has used the magic and the power of the
camera lens to immortalize the noble spirit and enduring legacy of his elder
tribes people in his native Laguna, New Mexico. The passing of time has turned
his hundreds of rare photographs into an unforgettable album of faces that are
compelling, intriguing and hauntingly beautiful. The Lee Marmon Gallery brings
to life the names and faces of the last generation of Native Americans to live
strictly by their old traditions and values. In tribute to this vanishing way of
life, Mr. Marmon has created on audiovisual tapestry of his most prized
and cherished images.
With the power of his own voice, Lee Marmon takes the viewer on a unique
narrated tour to a time long forgotten, a gallery tour that will at once delight
and enchant, as well as inform and entertain.
This priceless collection also includes a commentary and reading by Lee's
daughter, Native American author Leslie Marmon Silko.
My dad and I had a trading post
there on the reservation. One morning we were standing around the potbellied
stove in the trading post, talking about photography, and he said, "You ought to
take some pictures of the old-timers, so we have something to remember them by."
It gives me great pleasure to look
through the collection and tell a little bit about each of the people.
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The Pueblo Imagination The Pueblo Imagination pairs Lee Marmon's
award-winning photography celebrating the Laguna Pueblo people with 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. Each flash of Marmon's camera captured a piece of Native American
history, and this book preserves that precious legacy. (Beacon Press 2003)
"Lee Marmon captured a piece of American history;
this book preserves that precious legacy."
-Independent Publisher
Winner of the 2004 IPPY Award for Photography from Independent Publisher.
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