Antanas Sutkus: Nostalgia for Bare Feet
From April 7 to May 29, 2016, the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography will hold an exhibition of Antanas Sutkus Nostalgia for bare feet. The exhibition will feature more than one hundred works created by the master of Lithuanian photography between 1959 and 1979, many of which have never been shown before.
Antanas Sutkus is widely recognized as the forefather and inspirer of Lithuanian school of photography, which flourished on the western outskirts of the Soviet Union during the 1950s–1970s. Since his childhood, Sutkus dreamed of becoming a journalist. From 1958 to 1964, he studied at Vilnius University, where he became disillusioned with Soviet journalism and began to devote himself to photography. He was at the roots of the famous Lithuanian Association of Art Photographers and for a long time served as its Chairman.
Nostalgia for bare feet includes works from Antanas Sutkus’ seminal series People of Lithuania – a lifelong survey of Lithuanians. Among them – the famous report on the school for blind children in Kaunas, stunning series on Sutkus’ son, Simas, and the award winning Pioneer (1964). Along with original prints from the Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography collection the exhibition will feature never-before-seen prints from Antanas Sutkus’ archive.
