A trained architect, he worked in fashion, travel, portraiture, food and architectural photography[1] but is probably best known for his extensive coverage of the Nixon administration before, during and through the Watergate scandal.
He served as a signalman in World War II and studied architecture at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, where he was editor-in-chief of the school yearbook, The Cardinal.
Though he returned to New York City to practice architecture, his photographs of Europe caught the eye of Edward Steichen, then the curator of the Museum of Modern Art, for an exhibition he was doing called Always the Young Strangers.
Maroon curtailed all other stories for a couple years, realizing that something of great significance was taking place and he needed to cover it.
[4] Through the 1980s and 1990s Maroon authored a series of coffee-table books on a variety of subjects, ranging from the modern US Navy Keepers of the Sea (co-authored by Edward L. Beach, Jr.) and the food of chef Jean-Louis Palladin.
After his death, the Maroon family decided that the entire photographic collection would be donated to the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas.