Pranas Juozapavičius - kultūros paveldo fiksuotojas

LTLietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejaus rinkiniuose saugoma dalis žymaus Lietuvos kraštotyrininko, pedagogo, visuomenininko, muziejininko, ilgamečio muziejaus darbuotojo Prano Juozapavičiaus (1917–1988) rašytinio ir fotografijų palikimo. 2017 m. minime Prano Juozapavičiaus 100-ąsias gimimo metines. Straipsnio tikslas – apžvelgti Prano Juozapavičiaus fotografijų, saugomų Lietuvos švietimo istorijos muziejuje, palikimą [p. 50].

ENIn the collections of Museum of Lithuanian Education History a part of written and photographic heritage of a famous Lithuanian ethnographer-teacher, public figure, museologist, long-time museum employee Pranas Juozapavičius (1917–1988) is preserved. In 2017, we commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of Pranas Juozapavičius. The aim of the article is to review Pranas Juozapavičius’ photographic heritage, preserved in Museum of Lithuanian Education History. Pranas Juozapavičius was born on September 15, 1917 in Vėžioniai village of Prienai district. He studied at Vėžioniai primary school (between 1928 and1931), Alytus craft school (in 1940). After acquiring a historian’s profession in the Faculty of History-Philology at Vilnius University (in 1950), he related his further life with the work of teacher, ethnographer, and museologist in Vilnius (between 1948 and 1952) and in Kaunas (between 1958 and 1977). While working as the Head of the Department of Republic Pedagogical Museum (now Museum of Lithuanian Education History) in Kaunas, P. Juozapavičius visited Lithuania’s historic sites, collected exhibits, especially the photographs illustrating Lithuania’s education history of interwar period, recorded and documented the objects of heritage and education history. He investigated Lithuania’s education history of Kaunas and its surroundings, published articles in the press. About 300 units of P. Juozapavičius’ autographs, dated from 1940 until 1986, are preserved in the museum. The collection consists of photographs capturing the objects of heritage, small-scale architecture, and different objects photographed during ethnographic expeditions.The collection is divided into smaller collections by grouping photographs according to the content captured in them: cult buildings, churches; the buildings related to historical personalities, and personalities; the monuments as well as the tombstones and memorial monuments of cultural figures and educators; the photographs of ethnographic trips; the parks and new architecture; former and existing school buildings; the objects of heritage, manor buildings, historic buildings, the castles reminding the history of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kaunas newsstands. In the present article, the heritage of Pranas Juozapavičius’ photographs is not assessed from the point of artistic photography view, the photographs are presented as the example of documentation and applied research of valuable material heritage, i.e. the example of photo-fixation. Today written and photographic heritage of Pranas Juozapavičius is the object of interest of society, historians, and heritage specialists. His written heritage is regularly cited in scientific studies and official documents, in preparing the descriptions of heritage objects, and the photographs are used as the objects of iconography. The developed taste of ethnographer, historian, museologist, heritage lover and an indisputable flair for the documentation of objects reminding the past by means of photo lens, today provide us with a possibility to recognize from photographs different material objects of cultural heritage.