Vytautas V. Stanionis
Nuotraukos dokumentams / Photographs for Documents (1st edition)

Photographs: Vytautas V. Stanionis

Publisher: Kaunas Photography gallery

44 pages

Year: 2013

Comments: Softcover, 240 mm x 290 mm. 1st edition.

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This book’s folio design is shaped by its content: Lithuanian identification photographs from 1946, when citizens were required to get new, Soviet documents. What’s distinctive about these images—taken by Vytautus V. Stanionis’s father, also named Vytautus—is that, to save money and materials, each print features two people side-by-side, to be sliced in half for individual use. Photographs for Documents highlights the strangeness of this arrangement by using only gatefold pages, each folding out to reveal a second, silent portrait partner—both “hiding and revealing the gist of the book,” says Todd Hido. The viewer is left to speculate on both the relationship between subjects—are they family? Strangers?—and on their fates." Paris Photo information

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