Photographer Fred Maroon Dies: Caught City's Glory

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 6, 2001| Author: Claudia Levy | Copyright information

Fred J. Maroon, 77, whose evocative images of Washington and intimate portraits of Richard M. Nixon's White House helped make him one of this city's preeminent photographers, died of multiple myeloma Nov. 5 at his Georgetown home.

Mr. Maroon's snowy scenes of Wisconsin Avenue NW in Georgetown and of the Supreme Court, looming behind the remaining golden leaves of a nearly bare tree, have become some of the classic representations of the nation's capital.

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