Tony Gleaton
| Tony Gleaton | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Leo Antony Gleaton August 4, 1948 Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 2015 (aged 67) Palo Alto, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | East Los Angeles Junior College; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Berkeley; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena |
| Known for | Photography |
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| Spouse(s) | Lisa Ellerbee |
Leo Antony (Tony) Gleaton (August 4, 1948 – August 14, 2015) was an African-American photographer. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he moved with his family to California at the age of 11. He joined the Marines after high school, then pursued a college degree at the University of California Los Angeles, where he became interested in photography. A large portion of his work was about capturing images of African displacement in the West (the Americas) and its influence. He was also well known for his photography of black cowboys. Gleaton died in his home in Palo Alto, CA, on August 14, 2015 after a long battle with oral cancer.
Gleaton was born to a middle-class family. Gleaton's mother, Geraldine Woodson, a school teacher, and father, Leo, a police officer, split up when he was 11 years old. His mother then relocated his family to Los Angeles, California. He began his collegiate career at East Los Angeles Junior College where he played football. He left in 1967 to join the Marine Corps, serving one tour in Vietnam. In 1970 he returned to the U.S. and enrolled at the UCLA under the GI bill, but did not graduate. Gleaton also took classes at the University of California, Berkeley and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena on scholarship.
In 1977 Gleaton left California for New York City, where he began his career with an interest in fashion photography. In 1980 he left New York and the world of fashion photography. For the next few years he traveled around Texas and Mexico, where he did a handful of manual labor jobs, including working in construction and in oil fields. In that time he also began to photograph African Americans in those areas. From this point on Gleaton made a career out of photographing black cowboys, Native Americans, African Americans, and Mexican Americans. His focus was the multicultural South-West.
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