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| Vilnius: Portrait of a City |
| Anthology of photographs and text |
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The book is comprised of photographs of Vilnius from the 19th–21st century, and written references to the city, the earliest of which is a letter by Gediminas dated 1323.
Vytautas Augustinas, Arūnas Baltėnas, Alfonsas Budvytis, Jan Bułhak, Tyburcy Chodżko, Józef Czechowicz, Roman Loranc, Alter Kacyzne and many others all photographed the same streets, churches, squares, districts and panoramas. Their works are grouped here according to subject and a certain aesthetic logic.
Alongside them are essays on Vilnius (Tomas Venclova, Czeslaw Milosz); travelogues, beginning in the time of Adam Honor Kirkor; recollections (Lucy S. Dawidowicz, Alfred Doblin, Joseph Frank etc.); travel impressions (Keith Chesterton, Anna Dostoyevskaya etc.); letters (Žemaitė, George Forster etc.); excerpts, and verse, all dedicated to Vilnius.
The foreword includes text in the languages of the inhabitants of Vilnius – Lithuanian, Polish, Latin, Yiddish, Russian, and Byelorussian.
Compiled by Isaac Zibuts and Raimondas Paknys
Text chosen and edited by Audra KairienÄ—
Available in Lithuanian and in English
240 photographs
Hard cover, slipcase
Print 5×5, 250×320 mm, 360 p. |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-31-8 (Lithuanian)
ISBN 978-9955-736-32-5 (English)
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| They Lived in Vabalninkas |
| 1925–1941 |
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Album of portraits and group photographs of Jews living in Vabalninkas, as well as images of the town, in the period between the two world wars, from the archives of photographer Juozas Daubaras.
Commissioned by the State Vilna Gaon Jewish Museum
Compiled, foreword by Dalija Epšteinaitė
Designed by Isaac Zibuts
Available in Lithuanian and in English
180 black and white photographs
Hard cover with jacket, 168 p., 230×30 mm |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-24-0 (lithuanian)
ISBN 978-9955-736-25-7 (english)
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| Sounds of Silence |
| Traces of Jewish life in Lithuania |
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A memorial album dedicated to the annihilated Jewish communities of Lithuania. Photographs that capture the images of cemeteries, prayer houses, and other buildings and sites connected to Jewish life, or more precisely –
images of what remains many years after the golden age of Jewish Lithuania. Alongside them are the Yiddish and Lithuanian names of towns and villages whose Jewish inhabitants made up a large proportion, perhaps even the majority of the overall population from the 19th and the first half of the 20th century – accompanied by a number of telling figures from their history. This book not only evokes the sadness and pain of loss, it reminds us of the people who drew their sap of life from Lithuania, who created and fostered their unique culture, who simply lived, in this land. We hear the din of the eternal silence that shrouds Jewish Lithuania.
Project - Isaac Zibuts
Photos - Raimondas Paknys
Preface author and consultant - Dovid Katz
Available in English, Lithuanian
Hard cover, 204 p., 300×264 mm |
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ISBN 978-9955-736-26-4 (Lithuanian)
ISBN 978-9955-736-27-1 (English)
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