| LC control no. | no 00047779 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Gleaton, Tony |
| Variant(s) | Gleaton, Anthony Gleaton, Leo Antony |
| Birth date | 1948-08-04 |
| Death date | 2015-08-14 |
| Place of birth | Detroit (Mich.) |
| Place of death | Palo Alto (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | African American cowboys--Portraits Blacks--Mexico--Portraits |
| Profession or occupation | Photographers |
| Found in | KTTV news. 1993-02--excerpts, The black history project, 1993: caption (Tony Gleaton, photographer) Tengo casi 500 años, 1995?: poster recto (Tony Gleaton, Anthony Gleaton) New York times WWW site, viewed Aug. 19, 2015 (in obituary published Aug. 18: Tony Gleaton; b. Leo Antony Gleaton, Aug. 4, 1948, Detroit; d. Friday [Aug. 14, 2015], Palo Alto, Calif., aged 67; 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; made his photographs in the American West and Southwest, and then, most prominently, in Mexico, where he lived among little-acknowledged communities of blacks--descendants of African slaves brought to the New World centuries earlier by the Spanish--in villages on the coastal plains of Oaxaca) |
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