#lithuanian photographers

[yeswearemagazine]

Untitled, Lithuania, 2 023 © Giedré Kuskytè :

[4eternal-life]

Romualdas Rakauskas (Lithuanian/Soviet, 1941 -2021)

Romualdas Rakauskas Motor Highway, Undated

[yourdailyqueer]

Vėra ��leivytė (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 6 December 1906 

RIP: 21 April 1998

Ethnicity: White - Lithuanian

Occupation: Photographer, painter, graphic artist

[madam-of-lithuania]

My Photography edit

Is Snowing 🌨

Here's my original photo

It started to snow again yay ❄️😄❄️

[theaskew]

Romualdas Rakauskas (Lithuanian 1941-2021) Iš ciklo „Žydėjimas” (Aktas) (From the cycle "Blooming" (Act)), 1979. Photography, silver gelatin print, 20 x 15 cm.

[a-pearl-in-my-head]

south lithuania, ‘24

[thoughtfulseason]

anyway yesterday FIE posted my art on their page (!!!!) and some lithuanian fencers saw my stories about it (and also a bunch of foreign fencers followed me) and i’m thinking it would be cool if i would become known in the lithuanian fencing community as the ✨ artist ✨

[barkingbonzo]

❓ODDITIES AND CURIOSITIES❓

[explicus]

Shahn was a painter and artist as well as a photographer who worked part-time for the FSA’s photography department. His interest in art led him to work with different kinds of cameras, some which allowed him to photograph subjects without them knowing they were being photographed, writes the International Center of Photography. But some of his most famous work was a series of 23 paintings done about the trial of Italian anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti, a case which “disturbed me very much,” he once said.  

Men with Hats, Listening, Photo by Ben Shahn, 1934

[yeswearemagazine]

Trampoline, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2022 © Giedrè Kuskytè :

[diana-andraste]

Photograph from Lithuanian countryside, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, 1970

This is AI, inspired by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Thanks to @colonellickburger for the insight.

[de-salva]

Daybreak (Bernardine cemetary, Vilnius, Lithuania, 1996)

© Kęstutis Stoškus (b. 1951, Lithuanian photographer)

[petermorwood]

We had roast beef for Christmas dinner, along with - among other things - roasted potatoes, roasted carrots and roasted parsnips (if the oven is running, make use of it!) Very good they were, too.

Boxing Day was the usual grazing-on-leftovers, but next day, to break away from Variations On A Theme Of Roasting in E Minor, @dduane decided to do some frying instead, and made latkes.

I'm more familiar with hash browns and rösti, but I've had latkes before and enjoyed them a lot. This batch was excellent, so much so that I excused myself from the kitchen until she'd taken some photos, otherwise there'd have been nothing left to photograph... :->

"More-ish" doesn't even come close.

Her IBS meant she avoided the traditional apple compote accompaniment and went instead for sour cream - super-rich Lithuanian 40% in this instance - so the apples weren't missed.

The IBS also meant leaving out any onion, so these weren't as traditionally flavoured as the last time when IBS wasn't yet a problem, but when I suggested adding bacon lardons to the next batch instead, she rolled her eyes and muttered something about not getting that idea past even the most reformed of Reform rabbis *.

So, no.

Or at least not yet, because there are lots more potatoes and I'm not helpless in a kitchen...

*****

* I know the "Three Rabbis and the Hanukkah Bush" joke, and she knows I know, because she was there when I first heard it at a Discworld convention. This, much shortened, is how Professor Jack Cohen told it:

Q: "Rabbi, my kids' gentile friends all have Christmas trees. Would a Hanukkah Bush be okay?"

Orthodox rabbi: "No, certainly not!"

Conservative rabbi: "Just inside the house, and keep it small."

Reform rabbi: "Hanukkah? What's that...?"

*****

Something else which prompted comment, this time from me, was when using our Magimix (Cuisinart) to grate the potatoes. We've only got one grating disc (it came with the kit) and I wondered if its 2mm cut was too fine - no, it wasn't - so went looking for New Discs for Next Time.

That's when I discovered there'd been a design change. When we bought our processor back in the mists of time 30+ years ago, the cutting-grating disc that came with it, and all extra ones, were reversible doubles, like this:

It fits on the spindle one way up for slicing, the other way up for grating. Simple.

However, the modern discs AREN'T reversible, an idea no doubt put forward by some bright spark in Accounting...

...since now Magimix users need twice as many discs as they used to, and buying them costs twice as much as well.

(Sensible users also need twice as many boxes for safe storage, because these things are didn't-feel-it-happen sharp, and can easily exact Steel Fee from an unwary finger reaching for something else in the same drawer.)

On the bright side, we seldom need to grate / slice stuff in such large quantities that doing it by hand on mandoline or box grater is a serious chore, and doubtless the redesign has some sound mechanical reason behind it.

Despite that I can also hear the distant ka-ching of the corporate cash register, making this whole thing rather (cough) grating...

:-P

[theaskew]

Virgilijus Usinavičius (Lithuanian b. 1963, Vilnius, Lithuania), Pasiklydę rūke (Lost In The Fog), 2018. Photography, silver gelatin print, 35 x 97 cm. (Source: Virgilijus Usinavičius)

[a-pearl-in-my-head]

north lithuania, ‘23

[kaijuno]

Female blast furnace worker Bernice Daunora at the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Works in Gary Indiana making steel for the war effort, she is wearing a personal protective breathing apparatus - 1943

Bernice Elizabeth Kenstaites was born in Glasgow, Scotland on November 11, 1911 to Lithuanian parents. She immigrated to the USA in 1920, in 1930, she was living with cousins in Chicago and working as a laborer at a can factory.

In 1933, she married William Daunora, a Lithuanian immigrant and they had a son the next year. In 1940 Bernice was naturalized as a US citizen and they were living in Gary, Husband William was a crane operator at the steel works.

Evidently they were both working at the steel works when this picture was taken. William passed in 1960 and Bernice passed at the age of 82 on June 21, 1994, they are buried together at the Calumet Park Cemetery, Merrillville, Indiana.

Many thanks to John Klear for the research

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