Introducing the big book about Maxim Gorky's life and his works. This album was designed for the 150th anniversary of the writer. Album consist of articles about Gorky's life and of the large number of photos and manuscripts. The main role of this book is introducing museum's and university's of Maxim Gorky's collection. All materials (photos and articles) were provided by A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Here you can see some spreads from the album. Much attention has been paid to the documentary photos of Maxim Gorky's life, manuscripts and modern photos of exposition in the museum of Maxim Gorky. There are the biggest and fullest collection of documentary photos and manuscripts which people didn't see before. Because of that pictures in this album are the main object. Articles which was written by literary critics are good accompaniment for photos.
There is a publishing program dedicated to the life and work of various Russian writers below. These are series of small books where is the articles plays the most important role. There are not so many pictures and photos in this books because at thirst they are for reading. This books can be useful for students from different literature universities or for people who interested in Russian literature history. All books from this program have similar layout and composition of photos. The difference between them is different colors — each book has its own color-coding which was selected for each book personally.
This publishing program is a good example of the succession and continuation of typographic styles, layout and typography which was found in the main, big edition.
