The Nomadic Library of MedPhoto Festival, the first removable lending library of photographic books in Greece, is hosted by the Photography and Film Club of Chania (LefKi), in collaboration with the Municipality of Chania, the KEPPEDHCH-KAM and the Municipal Library, offering the opportunity to photographers, artists, teachers, students, people who are interested in photographic storytelling in general, to come into contact with photographic publications and the work of important creators.
As announced by the Municipality of Chania and LefKi , the aim is to promote the photographic book as an autonomous work and to connect photography with it, as a framework for its observation. Through this perspective, each photographic book is experienced not simply as an “album” or a collection of images, but as a single narrative and artistic work that proposes a view of the world around us.
The photographic book functions as a coherent depiction of perceptions, events, eras, while involving in its creation photographers, curators, graphic designers, publishers, typographers, writers and generally people from many different fields, it is a collective work. At the same time, it functions completely differently in the reading of the image, compared to an exhibition of photographs posted on the wall, due to its structure, its permanence, its material and its character as an object / work of art, addressed to a single viewer.
This part of the collection of the Nomadic Library, which will be hosted in the reading room of the Municipal Library of Chania, consists of almost one hundred photographic books, classical works that have played a decisive role in the history of photography and works that set in a special way the use of the medium today and reflect a wide range of contemporary artistic pursuits and trends in the field of books, on an aesthetic and technical level and come either from international and domestic publishing organizations, or are self-publishing.
The Nomadic Library will be open to the public from Tuesday, May 17, 2022, during the days and opening hours of the reading room of the Municipal Library of Chania.
Visiting days and hours
Monday – Friday: 8 am – 2 pm
Monday and Thursday: 6 pm – 9 pm
Saturday: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
THE LIST OF NOMADIC LIBRARY
1 Abril Laia, On Abortion, Dewi Lewis
2 Another Life: Human Flows/Unknown Odysseys, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
3 Balaska Aimilia, Dotter, Self-Published
4 Ballen Roger, Boarding House, Phaidon
5 Borders-Crossroads, KOLEKTIV8
6 Borissova Julia, Let Me Fall Again, Self-Published
8 Campany David and Thompson Jerry L., Walker Evans: Labour Anonymous, D.A.P./Koenig
9 Chelbin Michael, Strangely Familiar, Aperture
10 Chronopoulou Stella, Libya, Dolce-far Nulla
11 COLLECTIF/BONNET ISABELLE, Home Sweet Home, Textuel
12 D’Agata Antoine, Cidade de Pedra, VOID
13 De Esteban Max, Elegies of Manumission, Nasraeli Press
14 De Middel Cristina, Afronauts, Self-Published
15 Giovanna den Sarto, A polaroid for a refugee
16 Depardon Raymond, Manhattan Out, Steidl
17 Divola John, Vandalism, MACK
18 Dorley Brown Chris, The Longest Way Round, Overlapse
20 Europe: Τhe faces and the territory, KOLEKTIV8
21 Foglia Lucas, Human Nature, Nasraeli Press
22 Frank Robert, The Lines of My Hand, Steidl
23 Fukase Masahisa, Family, MACK
24 Gill Stephen, Archaeology in Reverse, Nobody Books
25 Gill Stephen, Hackney Kisses, Nobody Books
26 Gill Stephen, The Pillar, Nobody Books
27 Goicolea Anthony, Fictions, Twin Palms
28 Goldblatt David, Particulars, Steidl
29 Gowin Emmet, Aperture
30 Graham Paul, A Shimmer of Possibility, MACK
31 Graves Kenneth, The Home Front, MACK
32 Gupta Soham, Angst, AKINA
33 Hannes Nick, Garden of Delight, Hannibal Publishers Veurne
34 Hannes Nick, Mediterranean. The Continuity of Man, Hannibal Publishers Veurne
35 Hugo Pieter, 1994, Prestel
36 Hugo Pieter, This Must Be The Place, Prestel
37 Hussain Mahtab, You Get Me?, MACK
38 Joy Ross Judith, Living with War, Steidl
39 Jude Ron, Nausea, MACK
40 Koinaki Tonia, Did they all live happily ever after?, KOLEKTIV8
41 Kollar Martin, Provisional Arrangement, MACK
42 Lange Mårten, The Mechanism, MACK
43 Lybeer Charlotte, Encyclopedia, Self-Published
44 Maier Vivian, Self-Portraits, powerHouse Books
45 Majoli Alex, Scene, MACK
46 Mann Sally, Immediate Family, Aperture
47 Menner Simon, Top Secret, Hatje Cantz
48 Milach Rafal, 7 Rooms, Kehrer
49 Miller Peter and Scully Julia, Disfarmer: Heber Springs Portraits, 1939-1946, Addison House
50 Morales Nelson, Fantastic Woman, Inframundo/Hydra
51 Mosse Richard, The Castle, MACK
52 Nazar, Photographs from the Arab World, Aperture
53 Nicolas Savary, Conquistador, Editorial RM Mexico
54 Orton Liz, EveryBody is an Archive, Self-Published
55 Owens Bill, Suburbia, Fotofolio
56 Paglen Trevor, Invisible: Covert Operations and Classified Landscapes, Aperture
57 Papageorge Tod, Passing Through Eden, Steidl
58 Park Trent, Minutes to Midnight, Steidl
59 Pilos Nikos, Trapped, KOLEKTIV8
60 Pinckers Max and De Bruyn Quinten, Lotus, Lyre Press
61 Pinckers Max, Margins of Excess, Self-Published
62 Polke Sigmar, When Pictures Vanish, Moca/Scalo
63 Ponirakou Georgia, Makronissos, KOLEKTIV8
64 Raad Walid, I Might Die Before I Get a Rifle, Steidl
65 Rafman Jon, Nine Eyes, New Documents
66 Rexroth Nancy, Iowa, University of Texas Press
67 Richardson Stuart , Sodium Sun/Natríum Sól, Self-Published
68 Richter Gerhard, Atlas, D.A.P.
69 Ruwedel Mark, Ouarzazate, MACK
70 Saliba Alexandra, Everflow, Self-Published
71 Sandberg Leif, Ending, Bœcker Books
74 Savulich Andrew, The City, Steidl
75 Sekula Allan, Fish Story, MACK
76 Serra Costa Rita Puig, Where Mimosa Bloom, Éditions du LIC
77 Sheikh Fazal, Erasure Desert Bloom Notes, Steidl
78 Sheikh Fazal, Erasure Independence/Nakba, Steidl
79 Sheikh Fazal, Erasure Memory Trace, Steidl
80 Shore Stephen, From Galilee to the Negev, Phaidon
81 Shulman Julius, Los Angeles: The Birth of a Modern Metropolis, Rizzoli
82 Soth Alec, Paris Minnesota, MAGNUM
83 Soth Alec, Sleeping by the Mississippi, MACK
84 Soth Alec, Songbook, MACK
85 Spada Valerio, Gomorrah Girl, Twin Palms
86 Spak Leslie, Sangre, Pequeño Pato Salvaje Editorial
88 Tomiyasu Hayahisa, TTP, MACK
89 Vachon Alexa, Rise, Self-Published
90 Van Manen Bertien, Beyond Maps and Atlases, MACK
91 Van Manen Bertien, Moonshine, MACK
92 Vietez Virxilio, La Fabrica
93 Warburg Aby, Atlas Mnemosyne, Akal
94 Woodman Francesca, Phaidon
95 Yoshiyuki Kohei, The Park, Hatje Cantz
96 The Anonymous project, The house
97 Bartollozzi Yannic, Au-delà des montagnes, Kastaniotis
