Awards

• Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (Art/Music/Creativity) 2015
• Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (Best Book) 2015

Overview

The distinguished American Indian photographer Lee Marmon has documented over sixty years of Laguna history: its people, customs, and cultural changes. Here more than one hundred of Marmon’s photos showcase his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people. Along with Marmon’s own oral history of the tribe and his family photos dating back to 1872, Tom Corbett presents archival images and historical research, making this the most complete published history of any southwestern pueblo. Marmon and Corbett also interviewed noted tribal elders and oral historians regarding customs, religious practices, and events of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The resulting narrative provides a fascinating story of survival through severe natural and man-made adversities, including droughts, plagues, marauding tribes, and cultural invasion. Through it all, Laguna has preserved its culture and retained sovereign powers over the pueblo and its territory.

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An unprecedented collection of portraits and landscapes with an extraordinary tribute of stories and personal recollections. --Southwest Books of the Year Filling a void in the visual history of New Mexico, this book shows the extraordinary work of Lee Marmon, a master of multiple genres of photography. -- Miguel A. Gandert, photographer of Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption The Laguna [Pueblo] photos . . . capture a disappearing world, one busily adjusting to modern influences. --New Mexico Magazine Through words as well as historical and original photographs, [Marmon] tells the story of his people, from their contradictory origin stories, to their adaptation of the conquistadors' Catholic faith, to their work on the railroad and the pueblo's subsequent modernization. --Cowboys & Indians

An unprecedented collection of portraits and landscapes with an extraordinary tribute of stories and personal recollections.--Southwest Books of the Year Filling a void in the visual history of New Mexico, this book shows the extraordinary work of Lee Marmon, a master of multiple genres of photography.-- Miguel A. Gandert, photographer of Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption The Laguna [Pueblo] photos . . . capture a disappearing world, one busily adjusting to modern influences.--New Mexico Magazine Through words as well as historical and original photographs, [Marmon] tells the story of his people, from their contradictory origin stories, to their adaptation of the conquistadors' Catholic faith, to their work on the railroad and the pueblo's subsequent modernization.--Cowboys & Indians

The Laguna [Pueblo] photos . . . capture a disappearing world, one busily adjusting to modern influences. -- New Mexico Magazine

Filling a void in the visual history of New Mexico, this book shows the extraordinary work of Lee Marmon, a master of multiple genres of photography. -- Miguel A. Gandert, photographer of Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption Through words as well as historical and original photographs, [Marmon] tells the story of his people, from their contradictory origin stories, to their adaptation of the conquistadors' Catholic faith, to their work on the railroad and the pueblo's subsequent modernization. --Cowboys & Indians An unprecedented collection of portraits and landscapes with an extraordinary tribute of stories and personal recollections. --Southwest Books of the Year The Laguna [Pueblo] photos . . . capture a disappearing world, one busily adjusting to modern influences. --New Mexico Magazine

Filling a void in the visual history of New Mexico, this book shows the extraordinary work of Lee Marmon, a master of multiple genres of photography. -- Miguel A. Gandert, photographer of Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption

Author Information

Lee Marmon lives in his hometown, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico, USA. His interest in photography grew while he was serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. After the war, while working at his father’s trading post, he photographed the main work in this collection, portraits of Laguna elders, which is now with the University of New Mexico, USA. Tom Corbett is a physician who lived and practiced at Laguna Pueblo in the 1960s. He conceived the idea for this historical book while living among and caring for the Lagunas. It has been a work in progress since that time. He and Lee Marmon have been friends for fifty years.

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