Hija Negra/Flor Blanca/Black Girl/White Flower (Mango Creek, Belize), from the series "Tengo Casi 500 Años: Africa's Legacy in Central America"
Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Gleaton has traveled constantly throughout Mexico, Central America, and to all but three of the countries in South America, photographing people of African ancestry and crafting an “alternative iconography of beauty, family, love, & goodness.” He says he loves “the other,” which he defines as people who are separate from dominant cultural groups. “My work examines our common elements and the disparities, which in making us different, also bind us together in the human condition.”
- African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Copyright
- © 1994 Tony Gleaton. Reproduction of this image requires the Artist's permission.
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Date
- 1992, printed 1994
- Object number
- 1994.11.5
- Artist
- Tony Gleaton, born Detroit, MI 1948-died Palo Alto, CA 2015
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 20 x 16 in. (50.7 x 40.6 cm.)
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Topic
- African American
- Figure female\bust
- Landscape\Belize
- Waterscape\river\Mango Creek
- Record ID
- saam_1994.11.5
