Vilnius, Lukiškės. From series "Photographs"

This photograph by Vytautas Balčytis, entitled Vilnius, Lukiškės, and created in 1986, captures a bench in Lukiškės Square. If the reference contained in the title of the photograph to Lukiškės Square, a place of historical Lithuanian significance, were to disappear, it would be difficult to say where the photograph was taken. On first glace the subject seems insignificant –– merely a close-up focus on a bench, while the Square itself is not visible.
Take a closer look at the composition of this photograph. Does it not resemble a landscape due to the dominance of the horizontal delineation of space? In his characterization of photographic tradition, the art critic Alfonsas Andriuškevičius has emphasized the "landscape perception" characteristic of Lithuanian photographers, i.e. their tendency to compose an image to include a clear horizontal, conducive to imagining a landscape.

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