{"id":4074,"date":"2019-07-03T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T06:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2019-08-20T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T06:37:20","slug":"a-rendezvous-with-famous-emigre-lithuanians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2019\/07\/03\/a-rendezvous-with-famous-emigre-lithuanians\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rendezvous with Famous \u00c9migr\u00e9 Lithuanians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lnb.lt\/kontaktai\/dokumentinio-paveldo-tyrimu-departamentas\/lituanistikos-skyrius\/silvija-stankeviciute\">Silvija Stankevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"490\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2019\/08\/1eng.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4075\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2019\/08\/1eng.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2019\/08\/1eng-250x167.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2019\/08\/1eng-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 85vw, 490px\" \/><figcaption>The photo exhibition at the National Library of Lithuania <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The photo exhibition by the Lithuanian-American photographer <strong>Algimantas Kezys <\/strong>(1928-2015) which was opened this summer at the Martynas Ma\u017evydas National Library of Lithuania presents the portraits of more than 20 famous Lithuanian diaspora figures taken in various places, mostly in the US, from 1961 to 1966. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Among them are\nfamous artists, composers, singers, sculptors, actors, photographers,\nclergymen, writers, and scientists, such as the composer, musicologist and organizer\nof the first Lithuanian Song Festivals Prof. Juozas \u017dilevi\u010dius, artists\nVytautas Kasiulis, \u010ceslovas Janu\u0161as, \u017dibuntas Mik\u0161ys and Viktoras Petravi\u010dius, sculptors\nAntanas Mon\u010dis and Petras Aleka, writer and art critic Jonas Grinius, composer\nBruno Markaitis, philosopher Dr. Povilas R\u0117klaitis, actors Algimantas Dikinis,\nNijol\u0117 Martinaityt\u0117-Nelson and Jonas Kele\u010dius, photographer Vytautas Ma\u017eelis, Jesuit\nand poet Leonardas Andriekus, writer Romas Spalis, soloist Stasys\nBaras-Baranauskas, choir conductor Alice Stephens, and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Algimantas Kezys\nleft Lithuania in 1944. In 1961, he was ordained as a Jesuit priest. In\nChicago, he founded the Lithuanian Photo Archive and the Lithuanian Library\nPress. For several years, Kezys headed the Lithuanian Youth Center in Chicago.\nHe edited and published books and photo albums. Kezys\u2019 works consists of color\nand black and white photography. The artist had more than 60 personal exhibitions\nin Lithuania and abroad. His works were highly praised in the Lithuanian and\nforeign press. In 1964, he began to organize personal photo exhibitions at the\n\u010ciurlionis Gallery in Chicago and other Lithuanian communities in the US. In 1965,\nKezys was invited to exhibit his works at the Art Institute of Chicago,\nfollowed by other prominent art centers in America, Europe, and the Far East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silvija Stankevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117 The photo exhibition by the Lithuanian-American photographer Algimantas Kezys (1928-2015) which was opened this summer at the Martynas Ma\u017evydas National Library of Lithuania presents the portraits of more than 20 famous Lithuanian diaspora figures taken in various places, mostly in the US, from 1961 to 1966. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-naujienos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}