Rare Aleksandras Macijauskas Photography Album “Gyventi / To Live” – 1997 First Edition

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### Raw Baltic Existentialism: “Gyventi / To Live” by Aleksandras Macijauskas (1997)

Immerse your space in the stark, uncompromising, and deeply psychological visual landscape of **Aleksandras Macijauskas** (b. 1938). Published in Vilnius in 1997, this rare, beautifully preserved retrospective album—titled *Gyventi / To Live*—is a masterclass in regional European documentary art and raw existentialism.

Macijauskas is celebrated globally for dismantling the rigid, polite aesthetics of mid-century photography. Utilizing a pioneering, aggressive wide-angle lens technique and extreme close-ups, he thrusts the viewer directly into the visceral underbelly of Baltic life: rural markets, veterinary clinics, traditional funerals, and raw human expressions bound together in deep, heavy monochrome contrasts.

#### **For the Discerning Photography Collector**
Alongside masters like Sutkus and Kunčius, Macijauskas is a pillar of Soviet-era and post-Soviet Baltic art, with his works held in elite permanent collections including the *Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)* in New York, the *Bibliothèque nationale de France*, and the *Victoria and Albert Museum* in London. Original 1997 copies of this comprehensive monograph are scarce and highly prized by international collectors of avant-garde print matter.

#### **For the High-End Interior Stylist**
This heavy, premium volume carries immense architectural and sculptural presence. Its stark cover, bold typography, and haunting black-and-white pages function as a powerful design anchor. Whether left open to display a dramatic, cinematic frame on a raw concrete coffee table, styled next to industrial iron elements, or curated on a dark oak library shelf, it instantly injects an atmosphere of intellectual depth, historical gravity, and sophisticated visual subversion into contemporary residential or workspace projects.

#### **Product Specifications:**
* **Author/Photographer:** Aleksandras Macijauskas
* **Title:** Gyventi / To Live
* **Publisher:** Lietuvos fotomenininkų sąjunga (Vilnius, 1997)
* **Condition:** Vintage / Vault Archive (Excellent condition with tight binding, crisp pages, and authentic light edge patina)
* **Format:** Heavyweight hardcover with high-density monochrome printing
* **Language:** Bilingual (Lithuanian & English text/captions)
* **Shipping:** Insured, priority gallery-grade museum packaging worldwide