
Anamnesis
- Publisher
- Libraryman
- Year
- 2021
- ISBN
- 978-91-88113-52-8
- Specifications
- Color offset printed paperbound hardcover
20 × 26 cm
72 pages
46 color plates
Blind embossed typography on front cover, spine and back cover
Linen thread bound
Black headband
First edition of 500 copies
2021 Libraryman Award
Anamnesis grew out of black-and-white photographs Aliki Christoforou took during a long hospital stay after a severe traffic accident on 29 December 2017. When she developed the rolls she had no recollection of many of the moments they showed, so she manipulated the prints in the darkroom to reflect the failures of her memory and the paradox of wanting to neglect the incident while needing to remember it. The title takes up Aristotle's two terms for memory: passive mneme and active, reminiscent anamnesis.