Antanas Sutkus

Street Life (Multi-Lingual edition)

Antanas Sutkus, Thomas Schirmböck, Johanna Adorján , Holger Feroudj

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Steidl Verlag
13 April 2023

Individual photographers

In 1959, at just 20 years of age, Antanas Sutkus 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 Sutkus' street photography and the contrasting realities of his loving observations of everyday life.

I don't like tricks or paparazzi scoops, probably that's why all my best shots are taken on village and city streets, and their main characters are ordinary passersby. While photographing, making inner contact with another person has always been important to me. It seems to be only a momentary meeting, but it is so telling. I trust my intuition, I work totally spontaneously. - Antanas Sutkus

By: Antanas Sutkus
Designed by: Holger Feroudj
Text by: Johanna Adorján
Edited by: Thomas Schirmböck
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 265mm, Width: 235mm,
Weight: 1.070kg
ISBN: 9783958297623
ISBN 10: 3958297625
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 13 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Born in Kluoniškiai, Lithuania, in 1939, Antanas Sutkus earned a degree in journalism in Vilnius and worked for daily newspapers before co-founding the Lithuanian Photographers' Association in 1969, which he headed for many years. Sutkus was president of the Union of Lithuanian Art Photographers upon its establishment in 1996 and has been its honorary president since 2009. He 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. Sutkus has exhibited extensively, including his 2018 retrospective at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius held on the hundredth anniversary of the Republic of Lithuania. Sutkus' books with Steidl are Planet Lithuania (2018) and Pro Memoria (2020) and the upcoming Children.

Reviews for Antanas Sutkus: Street Life (Multi-Lingual edition)

"Street Life portraits not only a place, but also Sutkus himself, who's framed as a flaneur more so than a photographer, the humanism characteristic to his images attributed to his ability to observe rather than angle--to find smiles rather than force them.--Megan Hullander ""Document Journal"""