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Tony Gleaton, Hija Negra/Flor Blanca/Black Girl/White Flower (Mango Creek, Belize), from the series "Tengo Casi 500 Años: Africa's Legacy in Central America", 1992, printed 1994, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1994.11.5, © 1994 Tony Gleaton. Reproduction of this image requires the Artist's permission.
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.”
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- Title
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Hija Negra/Flor Blanca/Black Girl/White Flower (Mango Creek, Belize), from the series "Tengo Casi 500 Años: Africa's Legacy in Central America"
- Artist
- Date
- 1992, printed 1994
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
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sheet: 20 x 16 in. (50.7 x 40.6 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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- Landscape – Belize
- Figure female – bust
- Waterscape – river – Mango Creek
- Object Number
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1994.11.5
- Palette
- Linked Open Data
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