Laguna Pueblo - by Lee Marmon & Tom Corbett (Hardcover)

About the Book

Laguna Pueblo: A Photographic History includes more than one hundred of Marmon's photos showcasing his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.

Book Synopsis

Laguna Pueblo: A Photographic History includes more than one hundred of Marmon's photos showcasing his talents while highlighting the cohesive, adaptive, and independent character of the Laguna people.

Review Quotes

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

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

About the Author

Lee Marmon lives in his hometown, Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico. 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.

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.