Aleksandras Macijauskas
Aleksandras Macijauskas (born May 16, 1938 in Kaunas ) is a Lithuanian photographer and journalist .
Life
His father died as a partisan resistant fighting the Soviet occupation. His mother was therefore deported to Siberia . Aleksandras Macijauskas grew up with his grandparents. In 1962 he graduated from secondary school in Soviet Lithuania . From 1973 to 1977 he immersed himself in philosophy of the West. From 1967 to 1979 he worked as a photographer for the daily newspaper " Vakarinės naujienos ". In 1969 he and other photographers established the association Lietuvos fotografijos meno draugija (since 1989 Lietuvos fotomenininkų sąjunga ) and in 1985 the Photography Club School (now Kaunas Photography Art School ). He is director of the Fujifilm photography gallery .
His work can be seen in the Šiauliai Photography Museum , Art Museum of Lithuania .
Honors
- 1994: Honorary Photographer ( AFIAP ), Fédération Internationale de l'Art Photographique
Awards
- 1995 Lietuvos nacionalinė premija
- 1998 Gediminas Order
- 2003 Prize from Kauno meno kūrėjų asociacija (for the book "Fotografijos rinktinė")
- 2004 Prize from Lietuvos meno kūrėjų asociacija (for the book "Fotografijos rinktinė")
- 2006 Golden Cross of Merit of Poland
- 2008 Kaunas Municipality Prize
literature
- Margarita Matulytė. Aleksandras Macijauskas. Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija , T. XIII (Leo-Magazyn). - Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų Leidybos institutas, 2008. 736 psl.
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| SURNAME | Macijauskas, Aleksandras |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian photographer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kaunas |