Dominiks Gedzjuns 1956–1961: Republika attēlos
The double-sided jacket allows the reader to choose whether to look at the statue of Lenin or an idyllic postcard from the 1950s.
In 2011, photo enthusiast Toms Zariņš discovered an archive of a very productive, yet almost forgotten Riga-based photographer: Dominiks Gedzjuns. In 2019, he showed this archive to designer and typographer Alexey Murashko, and in 2021 they issued the first book of the series Republika Attēlos (“The republic in images”) together.
The book embraces the photos of daily realities of Soviet-period Latvia (thanks to stochastic print, one can see every little detail on those photos), articles about their author, as well as three typefaces: Monotype Plantin (titles), Tiempos by Klim Type Foundry (body text), and Atlas Grotesk by Commercial Type (footnotes and captions).
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The book was published by Kultkom in a bilingual edition (Latvian and English) of 500 copies.
