Soviet Lithuania

In the 60s of the last century due to young photographers from Lithuania into the Soviet photo burst unusual and innovative style, which opened a new breath in photography, forever changing the course of its history.

Antanas Sutkus

Photos from the series "People of Lithuania", over which the master Lithuanian photography labored throughout life.

In his photographs like random strangers turn into a trusted interlocutor viewer ...





"Marathon on the street", 1959



Antanas Sutkus, 1971



"At the Baltic Sea", 1970.

Sutkus, according to cultural studies, has created a whole encyclopedia of images of people the difficult era.



Vitas Lutskus

The work of young Lithuanians are so bright against a background of standard portraits drummers production, construction cranes, harvesters on wheat fields that immediately won the best places in the publications on the exhibition stands, in photo albums.



Vitas Lutskus, 1960



Vaclovas Straukas, from the series "Last Call»



Vaclovas Straukas, from the series "Last Call»



"The main lyricist Lithuanian photoschool, consummate singer" Grace "- so called writer Leo Anninsky Romualdas Rakauskas.



Romualds Rakauskas, 1960

Lithuanian photographers, perhaps the first in the USSR as simple, warm, poetic showed ordinary peasant villager or work.



Romualds Rakauskas. From the series "Everyday Vilnius" (1960-1965)



Rimantas Dichavičius entered the history of Soviet photography as "a born romantic." It was a romantic touch and helped him become the first art photographer, somehow miraculously released into the Soviet Union edition glorifying female beauty. His photo album called "Flowers among Flowers" and was presented at the International Book Fair in Moscow in 1987. The album was truly a huge success.

Rimantas Dichavičius, "The Sun»

Aleksandras Macijauskas

No less success enjoyed Macijauskas footage of everyday life of inhabitants. And his village bazaar has revolutionized the minds of a whole generation of those days photographers.



Aleksandras Macijauskas. From the series "Cooperative Market." 1969-1970.



Aleksandras Macijauskas. "Summer", 1982. Photo: Center of Photography Lumiere brothers



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