SUTKUS, Antanas

This portraits are the result of a project started in 1988 and a tribute to those Kaunas Jews who once escaped death in concentration camps. It is SUTKUS' expression of attempts at understanding, penitence, purification and rebirth. Thank you, Mr SUTKUS.

This out-of-print catalog, 'Photobloc. Central Europe in Photobooks', contains interesting essays on various topics in the history of Central European photo books and - in addition to many photo book illustrations - an article on East German photography.

'People of Lithuania' is one of the international classics in the history of photo books. Antanas SUTKUS 'way of photographing people did not correspond to the style of the prevailing / desired propaganda photography in the Soviet republic at the time.

The trilingual photo book 'Street Life' by Antanas SUTKUS contains early black and white photographs from Vilnius, the capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania at the time. They show tiny islands of individuality in a strict and brutal system

Because of his humanistic photography, SUTKUS is considered the Eastern European counterpart to CARTIER-BRESSON. Books' title has been chosen suitably because it reflects exactly what constitutes the breeding ground for the work of the Lithuanian legend.