Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Traveling the dusty back roads of the Americas by bicycle, bus, or in a converted 1972 Army ambulance, Gleaton sought out communities that bear traces of Africa’s legacy in the New World. In Mexico he made his home in isolated villages in Oaxaca and on the Costa Chica south of Acapulco and sought out a village called Nacimiento de los Negros (Birth of the Blacks); in Bolivia he lived with descendants of the African slave trade.
- African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond, 2012
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Artist
- Tony Gleaton, born Detroit, MI 1948-died Palo Alto, CA 2015
- Date
- 1990, printed 1994
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
- Copyright
- © 1994 Tony Gleaton. Reproduction of this image requires the Artist's permission.
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- 12 x 12 in. (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
