{"id":42324,"date":"2015-08-20T15:42:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42324"},"modified":"2015-08-20T15:42:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T15:42:29","slug":"tony-gleaton-67-dies-leaving-legacy-in-pictures-of-africans-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42324","title":{"rendered":"Tony Gleaton, 67, Dies, Leaving Legacy in Pictures of Africans in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tony Gleaton, 67, Dies, Leaving Legacy in Pictures of Africans in the Americas<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2015-08-18<\/p>\n

Bruce Weber<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tony Gleaton<\/a>, a photographer who turned his back on a career in New York fashion and embarked on an itinerant artistic quest, documenting the lives of black cowboys and creating images of the African diaspora in Latin America, died on Friday in Palo Alto, Calif<\/a>. He was 67.<\/p>\n

The cause was oral cancer<\/a>, his wife, Lisa, said.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gleaton made his photographs in the American West and Southwest, and then, most prominently, in Mexico<\/a>, where he lived among little-acknowledged communities of blacks<\/a> \u2014 descendants of African slaves brought to the New World<\/a> centuries earlier by the Spanish \u2014 in villages on the coastal plains of Oaxaca<\/a>, south of Acapulco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An exhibition of those photos, \u201cAfrica\u2019s Legacy in Mexico<\/a>,\u201d which appeared in galleries around the country for more than a decade beginning in the 1990s, was sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution.<\/p>\n

Mr. Gleaton specialized in black-and-white portraits, their subjects \u2014 children and adults, alone or in groups \u2014 almost always in direct engagement with the camera and usually in tight frames that suggest but do not explore a specific setting, like a workplace or a barroom. In an interview with The Los Angeles Times<\/em> in 2007, he called his pictures \u201cabstractions from daily life,\u201d saying \u201cthey may look natural but they are extremely crafted, very calculated.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire obituary here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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