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Lee Howard Marmon was a self-taught photographer from Laguna Pueblo whose photographs grace books, magazines, galleries, private collections and museums around the world – including the Smithsonian.
His images of Native Americans, many taken on the Laguna reservation, helped to chronicle life in the community where he grew up, the blue-eyed, independent and spirited child of a mixed Native and non-Native American marriage, according to those who knew him well.
Marmon, 95, died March 31 from natural causes at a veterans home in Albuquerque.
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He got his first camera, an inexpensive Kodak, from his parents’ trading post on Laguna Pueblo. He began snapping pictures along Route 66 near Laguna, including images of vehicle crashes that he sold to insurance companies and local newspapers, according to his daughter Gigi Pilcher, who lives in Alaska.
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Museums are keepers of history.
Each collection has a focus, yet the public only sees a small percentage of a museum’s permanent collection.
At the Albuquerque Museum, there are nearly 200,000 objects in the history collection.
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The art collection is 10,000 items strong, while the photo and digital archives is upwards of 3,000 images.
“Like most of the museums, the Albuquerque Museum has a small percentage on display at any given time,” says Andrew Connors, museum director. “I was reading an article recently about the Louvre in Paris. The (museum) has more than 600,000 objects in its permanent collection. Yet there are only 38,000 on view. It’s pretty typical for a museum. We’re repositories for the future.”
Lots of love.
Love that spreads across the sky in stars that spell out his wife’s name, Anne, last year’s big gesture, created with the help of the planetarium folks at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science.
Love that circles the globe in photos of random folks in more than 65 countries who held signs that read “I Love Anne” sent at Anderson’s request.
Love that is written in an e.e. cummings poem with 6,500 pebbles, in a giant piñata and paper flowers taller than their South Valley house, in a working carousel in their yard, in a throne fit for a queen.
You don’t have to go to a museum to find Frida Kahlo.
She’s in Old Town gift shops, plastered across T-shirts, candles and socks.
Etsy boasts 38,510 Frida items, including stickers, coasters, quilts, kimonos, masks and bobbleheads.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art sells Frida sleep masks and cutting boards. There’s even a Frida Barbie with a divided unibrow.
The Albuquerque Museum is leaning into the mania, launching “Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Mexican Modernism” on Saturday, Feb. 6. The same show sold out in Denver.
In 2017, the Dallas Museum of Art organized a Frida look-alike mob on what would have been her 110th birthday, for which they attempted a Guinness World Record for the most-ever Fridas. The crowd numbered about 1,100.
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