Biography

 Leon Yost is a documentary photographer who has worked as a location scout for the BBC and is published in Time-Life Books, American Photo, The New York Times and others. He began documenting native cultures after visiting the American Southwest the first time in 1976. His thirty solo exhibitions include multiple galleries and two museums: the Jersey City Museum in 1979 and the San Diego Museum of Man in 1997.

Artist Statement

 My passion of the last forty years and still today is to capture the spirit of ancient lands and the cultures that called them home. Shown here are 13^th century villages hidden deep in the canyons of the American Southwest. Centuries before Frank Lloyd Wright coined the term “organic architecture,” the Anasazi were building that way, their dwellings and kivas growing naturally from their settings–protected by high cliffs and guarded by steep ascents. I still feel the power of the ancients whenever I enter these sacred zones.

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/leon.yost/

Books by Yost:

Riddles on the Rocks, a Tour of North American Rock Art Sites, 2014

https://www.amazon.com/Riddles-Rocks-Selected-North-American/dp/149953647X

A Tour of Australian Rock Art, 2018

https://www.amazon.com/Tour-Australian-Rock-Art/dp/1548901229

The Art of Healing, a Diné Medicineway, 2020

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-Healing-Diné-Medicineway/dp/B08GVGMVMZ

Email: ermaleon@gmail.com

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