Photographer Fred J. Maroon

Biography and photo from the Fred J. Maroon Gallery.

American, b. 1924, d. 2001.

Fred J. Maroon was born in New Brunswick, N.J. After three years in the Navy during World War II, he attended the Catholic University of America, in Washington, D.C., receiving a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1950. He completed his studies with one year of graduate work at the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1996 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Humane Letters) from Catholic University.

After graduation Mr. Maroon worked for Life magazine in New York, and became a stringer in their Paris bureau while doing his graduate studies. Following that he practiced architecture for two and a half years. In 1953 Edward Steichen selected a number of his photographs to include in the exhibition "Always the Young Strangers," at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Inspired by this, in 1954 Mr. Maroon became a freelance photographer. During his career Mr. Maroon had scores of photographic features in most major national and international magazines, including National Geographic, Smithsonian, Paris Match, Town and Country, Travel and Leisure, Esquire, Life, Look, and Holiday.

Mr. Maroon lectured extensively throughout the United States and abroad. Mr. Maroon was visiting professor at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications for the winter/spring semester of 1984. In 1985 he received the Newhouse Citation from Syracuse University for his significant contribution to the field of visual communications. He was the author of 12 book. At the time of his death Mr. Maroon was working on a book and exhibition featuring photographs taken when he was a student in Europe in 1950-1951.

Books:

• 1965, Washington: Magnificent Capital
• 1972, Courage and Hesitation
• 1975, These United States
• 1979, The Egypt Story
• 1983, Keepers of the Sea
• 1985, Maroon on Georgetown
• 1987, The English Country House: a Tapestry of Ages
• 1989, Jean-Louis: Cooking with the Seasons
• 1990, Century Ended, Century Begun
• 1993, The United States Capitol
• 1996, The Supreme Court of the United States
• 1999, The Nixon Years 1969-1974: White House to Watergate