First edition second printing of Planet Lithuania by Antanas Sutkus. Medium format hardback in as new condition. No markings. This is a brand new book. Signed by the artist on the title page.
About Planet Lithuania
This book is a rich overview of the photographers photos of the people of his native Lithuania during its occupation by the Soviet Union. Sutkus is above all a humanist photographer, his kosmos his fellow citizens children, lovers, the elderly; how they engage with modernity and tradition, nature and the city, and also express their identities. All captured in a frank, empathetic style that is far removed from soviet ideals and forms the foundation of the Lithuanian school of photography. By revealing individual lives of dignity and integrity behind the Iron Curtain, Sutkus work is as political as it is personal, a record of Lithuanias assertion of its cultural self against the Soviet Union which occupied the country from the Second World War until 1990. That struggle has since come to fruition: in 2004 Lithuania became a member of both NATO and the European Union, and is today one of Europes fasting growing economies.
