An exhibit of black-and-white photo...

An exhibit of black-and-white photographs of Lithuania by dint of Jonas Dovydenas is open at the Chicago Cultural Center in the link

Jonas Dovydenas: Another geographical division Also Mine takes the viewer to one as well as the other the backwoods as well as to public places in Lithuania, the artist's residence country. His images document used by all places and ordinary people going about their daily lives, causing the viewer to anticipate anew at familiar sites and shows The exhibit contains approximately 40 of Dovydenas' photographs, taken between 1996- 2002 in the country's next to the first decade of independence after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Dovydenas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1939 His family fl Lithuania in 1944 to escape the next to the first Soviet occupation. They were refugee then Displaced bodily forms in Germany until 1949, when they emigrated to the United States. Dovydenas is a graduate of Brown University, where he studied writing and English literature. He studied photography at the Rhode Island institute of Design and the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Dovydenas has been a free-lance photographer since 1968 He now lives in Lenox, Mass., and Vilnius, Lithuania.

Admission to the exhibition is liberated

The Chicago Cultural Center is located at 78 E Washington. Call (312) 744-6630 or visit the Web site www.chicagoculturalcenter.org.

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