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Background information, content
The photo book 'Street Life' by Antanas SUTKUS is with 'Children', 'pro memorie' and 'Planet Lithuania' the fourth, recently published photo volume by Lithaunian photographer, who is the recipient of the Lithuanian National Culture and Arts Award and the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gedimas, an Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation Grant and the 2017 Erich Salomon Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.
"In 1959, at just twenty years of age, he began photographing on the streets of Vilnius, then the capital of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania. Strolling through the town, his attitude was more that of a flaneur than of a photographer, observing and absorbing the essence of daily life as it was offered to him by his fellow citizens. At the time it was difficult to find safe surroundings in such a highly controlling and controlled society as Soviet-occupied Lithuania. But the streets offered open spaces, diverse passersby, bustling traffic and multiple layers of events. It was here that people tried to carve out and preserve niches for their little moments of joy. Establishing these tiny islands of individuality within such a strict and brutal system sets the frame for his street photography and the contrasting realities of his loving observations of everyday life." (© Steidl Verlag, 2022)
Additional information
This photo volume, 'Street Life' von Antanas SUTKUS, was released as a three-language publication: Englich, German und Lithuanian