Alexandras Macijauskas

Macijauskas, Alexandras (b. 1938), Lithuanian documentary photographer, prominent in Lithuania's principal photographers' association, the Art Photography Society. He made his name with two extensive monochrome surveys of rural life, Market (1969-80) and Veterinary Clinic (1977-84; not for the squeamish). Using a wide-angle lens, he comes in close and low as his subjects—who, doubtless from long familiarity, mostly ignore him—manhandle assets more solid than photography: geese, grain sacks, and gigantic pigs.

— Robin Lenman

Bibliography

• Macijauskas, A., My Lithuania (1991)