Gleaton’s photographs, and his mission to discover the range and nature of African diasporic life in the America’s, are inevitably entangled with issues of racial and cultural identity. But his portraits – Gina (Mexico) is one, are often frontal and as formal as the images of models and socialites he photographed in the 1970s for British Vogue. Abstracting his subjects from the reality of day-to-day life, he invests each with a sense of dignity and individuality that transcends time and place.
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
- Title
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Gina (Mexico) from the series “Africa’s Legacy in Mexico”
- Artist
- Date
- 1986, printed 1994
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- sheet: 14 x 11 in. (35.5 x 28.0 cm)
- Copyright
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© 1994 Tony Gleaton. Reproduction of this image requires the Artist's permission.
- Credit Line
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Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum purchase
- Mediums Description
- gelatin silver print
- Classifications
- Keywords
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- Figure female – child – knee length
- Object – written matter – calendar
- Landscape – Mexico
- Religion – New Testament – Mary
- Ethnic – Mexican
- Object Number
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1994.11.8
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
- Linked Open Data URI
