Background
Antanas Sutkus was born on June 27, 1939, in the village of Kluoniskiai in the district of Kaunas, Lithuania.
1970
Michelangelo Gold Medal of Italy
1977
Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
Antanas Sutkus
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Antanas Sutkus (born 1939) ranks among Europe's great humanist photographers. Although he lived and worked in occupied Lithuania on the periphery of the Soviet Empire, he profoundly influenced Soviet photography in terms of form and content. Sutkus developed his visual language in the 1960s, establishing the foundation for the Lithuanian school of photography. He was interested in absolutely everything: children, lovers, and the elderly, modernity and tradition, joy and painful farewells, nature and the city. Sutkus' photographs invariably revolve around Lithuania and its people; they were his "Kosmos" in which he found a place for everything, and he formulated his zest for their lives in his long-term project The People of Lithuania. Sutkus' undertaking was a bold one during the Cold War and under Soviet domination; his pictures were an expression of personal life behind the Iron Curtain.
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2019
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Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus’ favorite motif: children and their world Childhood is a theme that Sutkus (born 1939) has returned to again and again, presenting its myriad facets as well as the many interactions between the lives of children and adults. "Childhood is the most important platform for me as a photographer," says Sutkus; "Children live in a different world. Sometimes I succeeded in showing that world: not the real world customary to us, but their world. Children live on another planet than earth." With an unfailingly respectful yet astute eye, Sutkus depicts children together with their parents and relatives, with their friends, at play, or hard at work in school. He captures not merely the pleasures of childhood but also its deprivations, the difficulties involved in raising children, loneliness alongside belonging, as well as the inevitable crises of childhood that can have a lifelong impact. For Sutkus, children occupy a life phase that transcends national and cultural borders.
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2020
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Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus (born 1939) learned of the mass killing of the Jews during World War II itself, from his grandparents, experiencing shame and guilt for the atrocities committed behind the Vilijampole ghetto gates and the Ninth Fort. In 1988 Sutkus began photographing the Kaunas Jews who had escaped death in concentration camps; In Memoriam presents a selection of these portraits.
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Antanas Sutkus was born on June 27, 1939, in the village of Kluoniskiai in the district of Kaunas, Lithuania.
Antanas Sutkus studied journalism at Vilnius State University (now Vilnius University) (1958-1963).
In 1980 president of the presidium of the Photography Art Society of Lithuanian SSR, Antanas Sutkus has been very active with that organization since he became a member in 1969; Antanas Sutkus was vice-president for several years, beginning in 1974, and president of their Organizational Committee. From 1960 to 1962 he was on the staff of the weekly Literatùra ir Menas in Vilnius, and from 1962 to 1969 he was on the staff of the magazine Tarybinè Moteris, Vilnius. Antanas Sutkus was a worker at Ezerèlis Peatery from 1956 to 1958.
(Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus’ favorite motif: c...)
2020(Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus (born 1939) learne...)
(Antanas Sutkus (born 1939) ranks among Europe's great hum...)
2019