Antanas Sutkus

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Antanas Sutkus 1996

Antanas Sutkus (born June 27, 1939 in Kluoniškiai near Kaunas , Lithuania ) is a Lithuanian photographer. He is considered a representative of so-called humanistic photography and the most important Lithuanian photographer.

From the 1960s to the end of the 1980s, Sutkus documented everyday life in what was then the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic in his cycle “People in Lithuania” . His photos show the desolation of communism with its "disillusioned faces, desolate streets, ugly building complexes in prefabricated housing estates".

In 1965 Sutkus accompanied the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and the writer Simone de Beauvoir when they visited Lithuania. In the Curonian Spit , Sutkus and Jean-Paul Sartre in Nida took what is probably the most famous photo of Sartre. It shows the philosopher in a dark cloak on light dune sand, how he braces himself against the wind.

In 2017 Sutkus was awarded the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize of the German Society for Photography .

Work (excerpt)

  • Lithuanian portraits . Ed .: Nadim Julien Samman. White Space Gallery, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-9557394-4-6 (English, 92 pages).
  • In memoriam. To Vilnius and Kaunas Ghetto Prisoners . White Space Gallery, London 2016, ISBN 978-0-9557394-9-1 (English, 112 pages).
  • Planet Lithuania . Ed .: Thomas Schirmböck. Steidl-Verlag, Göttingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-95829-512-4 (272 pages).

Exhibitions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus receives the Dr. Erich Salomon Prize of the German Society for Photography. German Society for Photography, April 2017, accessed on March 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ A cathedral in every face - the Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus. Friedrich-Hund-Gesellschaft, 2005, accessed on March 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Petra Kammann: “Antanas Sutkus. Photographs ”in the Rüsselsheim Opel villas. Feuilleton Frankfurt, February 12, 2019 .;
  4. ^ Johanna Müller: How Antanas Sutkus photographed Jean-Paul Sartre - Or the relationship between art and philosophy. December 22, 2018, accessed March 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sutkus, Antanas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Kluoniškiai near Kaunas , Lithuania