MedPhoto fosters a collection/library of photobooks from all over the world featuring photobook as a separate work of art and as a primary frame of reference in photography.

A wide range of artists and works are present in this collection covering different periods and styles, movements or trends, from pioneers with a special role in the history of photography to more contemporary photographers that introduce diverse aesthetic and technical views on how to deal with the medium today. The notions that are brought out in Medphoto exhibitions, such as those of “identity”, “intimacy” and “territory”, are also present in the books’ content, as a part of a coherent narrative concept.

Photobook is seen as a cohesive body of facts, beliefs, periods, while at the same time the procedure of its creation involves people from different disciplines, making this work a collective process that aims at audiences further than photographers. Besides, photobooks function in a totally different way comparing to pictures on the wall, because of their structure, their material and their nature of addressing each time to an individual viewer.

Having in mind the photographic/visual education of photographers, students and others who might be interested, our desire is to create a nomadic and interactive library. That is, a library that will travel, lend books and present books through internet platforms. A library that will be constantly enriched and give reasons for workshops and seminars. This collection will be circulated tο public and university libraries all over Greece, to cultural associations, institutions and book festivals, so that the public will have an immediate contact with publications and works of important photographers. MedPhoto initializes this project in collaboration with the Municipal Library of Rethymno, Crete, one of the most historical libraries in Greece.

Of course, such a library will also contribute to the establishing of a historical/photographic archive, which is of great interest to our perspective.

The realization of the Nomadic Library project is mainly based on the donation by Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the sponsorship by Motor Oil, since most of the books are obtained with this support. MedPhoto also thanks Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, futura, Hatje Cantz, Lars Müller Publishers, ZONE BOOKS and VOID for their contribution on fostering this collection.

1. Adams, Robert | The new west | Steidl

2. Arbus D, Friedlander L, Winogrand G | New Documents | MoMA

3. Arthur, Olivia | Stranger | Fishbar

4. Baboussis, Manolis | Possessions | Futura

5. Baldessari, John | Pure Beauty | Lacma. Delmonico, Prestel

6. Baltz, Lewis | The Prototype Works | Steidl

7. Bellocq, E.J | Storyville Portraits | MoMA

8. Becher, Bernd & Hilla | Basic Forms Grundformen | Schirmer Mosel

9. Billingham, Richard | Ray’s a Laugh | Scalo

10. Braeckmann, Dirk | Dirk Braeckmann | Koenig Books

11. Brodie, Mike | A period of juvenile prosperity | Twins Palms Publishers

12. Brohm, Joachim | Typology | MackBooks

13. Broomberg, Adam & Chanarin, Oliver | Ghetto | Trolley

14. Campany, David | The Open Road | Aperture

15. Clark, Larry | Tulsa | Grove Press books

16. Clavarino, Federico | Italia o Italia | Akina

17. Curtis Posever, Verna | Photographic Memory, The Album on the Age of Photography | Aperture

18. D’ Agata, Antoine | Antibodies | Prestel

19. D’Αgata, Antoine | Cidade de Pedra | VOID

20. Davidson, Bruce | East 100th Street | St Ann’s Press

21. Del Sarto, Giovanna | A Polaroid for a Refugee | MedPhoto

22. DiCorcia, Philip-Lorca | Hustlers | Steidl Dangin

23. Dijkstra, Rineke | Portraits | Schirmer/Mosel and D.A.P.

24. Divola, John | As far as I could get | Delmonico / Prestel

25. Eggleston, William | Los Alamos, Revisited | Steidl

26. Elkoury, Fouad | Be…Longing | Steidl

27. Engstrom, JH | Haunts | Steidl

28. Epstein, Mitch | Family Business | Steidl

29. Evans, Walker | Lyric Documentary | Hill Steidl

30. Felzmann, Lukas | Waters In Between | Lars Muller

31. Fotografie | Stadel Museum

32. Frank, Robert | The Americans | Steidl

33. Fukase, Masahisa | Ravens | MackBooks

34. Gaudlitz, Frank | A Mazo. Die Amazonen des Amazonas | Hatje Cantz

35. Ghirri, Luigi | Kodachrome | MackBooks

36. Goldblatt, David | Regarding Intersections | Steidl

37. Goldin, Nan | The balad of sexual depedency | Aperture

38. Gossage, John | The Pond | Aperture

39. Hare, Chauncey | Protest Photographs | StedlKasher

40. Imbriaco, Alessandro | Le Jardin | Actes Sud

41. Israel, Iaakov | Legitimacy of Landscape |Kettler

42. Jude, Ron | Lago | Mack

43. Kakulya, Alban & Mingrand, Yann | East of a new Eden | Lars Muller Publishers

44. Kawauchi, Rinko | Illuminance | Aperture

45. Kertész, André | Mirror of a Life | Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

46. Killip, Chris | In flagrante 2 | Steidl

47. Koudelka, Josef | Wall | Aperture

48. Letsios, Dimitris | Journey in the Light and Shade of Greece | Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

49. Lutz, Christian | Protokoll | Lars Muller Publishers

50. Lyons, Robert and Straus, Scott | Intimate Enemy | Zone Books

51. Majoli, Alex | Libera Me | Trolley

52. Mandel, Mike & Sultan, Larry | Evidence | DAP

53. Mann, Sally |  Immediate Family | Aperture

54. Mater, Ahmed | Desert of Pharan | Lars Muller Publishers

55. Marker, Chris | La Jetée – ciné-roman | Zone Books

56. Marker, Chris | Staring Back | MIT Press

57. Meatyard, Ralph Eugene | The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater And Other Figurative Photographs | DAP

58. Meiselas, Susan | Nicaragua | Aperture

59. Mikhailov, Boris | Case History | Scalo

60. Minda, Beatrice | Iran Interrupted | Hatje Cantz

61. Mingrand, Yann | Deposit | Steidl

62. Mofokeng, Santu | The black photo album | Steidl

63. Mollica, Mimi | Terra nostra | Dewi Lewis Publishing

64. Moraki, Elisavet | Lilium | Futura

65. Mosse, Richard | Incoming | MackBooks

66. Nozolino, Paolo | Far Cry | Steidl

67. Paci, Adrian | Identity Flows: Visual Routes Across the Mediterranean Sea | Silvana

68. Papageorge, Tod | Passing through Eden | Steidl

69. Papageorge, Tod | Evans, Walker & Frank, Robert: An essay on Influence | YALE University Art Gallery

70. Parr, Martin | The non-conformists | Aperture

71. Patterson, Christian | Redheaded Peckerwood | mack

72. Petersen, Anders | Frenchkiss |Images En Manoeuvres

73. Pilos, Nikos | Trapped | MedPhoto

74. Power, Mark | The Shipping Forecast | Zelda Cheatle Press

75. Provoke | Steidl, LeBal, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Albertina, The Art Institute of Chicago

76. Rauschenberg, Christopher | Paris Changing: Revisiting Eugène Atget’s Paris | Princeton Architectural Press

77. Riley, Chris & Niven, Douglas (ed) | The Killing Fields | Twin Palms Publishers

78. Ruscha, Ed | Photographer | Steidl

79. Sander, August 1876-1964 | Taschen

80. Sanguinetti, Alessandra | The adventures o Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their dreams | Nazraeli Press

81. Schles, Ken | Invisible City | Steidl

82. Schmidt, Michael | Berlin Nach 45 | Steidl u esklidsen

83. Schorr, Collier | Neighbors | Steidl/Mack

84. Seawright, Paul | Hidden | The Imperial War Museum

85. Sejersen, Casper | Belongs to Joe | Mack

86. Sekula, Allan | Photography Against the Grain | MackBooks

87. Sherman, Cindy | Complete Untitled Film Stills | MoMA

88. Shore, Stephen | Uncommon Places | Thames & Hudson

89. Simon, Taryn | Birds of the West Indies | Hatje Cantz

90. Soulas, Dimitris | Snapshots. Photographs 1967–1974 | Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

91. Staveris, Spyros | A World without Margins | Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

92. Sternfeld, Joel | On the site | Steidl

93. Struth, Thomas | Unconscious Places | Schirmer/Mosel

94. Stylianou, Yiannis | Lucid Vision, Noble Paradox | Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

95. Tsiaras, Philip | The Supereal, 1971 – 2009 | Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

96. Wall, Jeff | The Complete Edition | Phaidon

97. Wessel, Henry | Traffic / Sunset Park / Continental Divide | Steidl

98. Van Denderen, Ad | Go No Go | Edition Braus

99. Van Der Meer, Hans | European Fields, the landscape of lower league football | Steidl

100. Van Manen, Bertien | Moonshine | MackBooks