Vintage Boots: The Moccasin House

Tuesday, 31 July 2012

The Moccasin House

Marmon's works were also featured in the Peabody Award-winning PBS series, "Surviving Columbus". A collection of Marmon's best-known works are featured in his award-winning 2004 book, "The Pueblo Imagination",^[4] which he wrote in collaboration with poets Joy Harjo and Simon Ortiz, and his oldest daughter, acclaimed novelist Leslie Marmon Silko.

Lee Marmon was born into circumstances that made him uniquely positioned among beings to create this great visual tapestry. The accumulated volumes of his life's work — thousands of photographs from a bygone chapter in our nation’s cultural history — comprise a priceless gift to America. They are the product of the rare confluence of Lee’s ethnic identity, generational positioning, artistic talent, technological vision, and his own cultural awareness