Florian Rainer - "Tagada"(2025) - "...It is a place where youth, who very often lack other social backing, can gather, a room for transformation, where the shy become confident." - new at josefchladek.com

Adriano Zanni - "Estratti di giorni cupi" (2025) "Excerpts from gloomy days" is an intimate journey through the winters of the province of Ravenna..." - new at josefchladek.com

Lena Grass - "Nachtigall" (2013) - "What remains when the day falls silent and the world holds its breath at night? When light and sound are swallowed, and we are embraced by darkness? " - rediscovered recently - an absolutely beautiful collection! more t josefchladek.com/nachtigall

Eliška Klimešová - "Women Readers" (2025) - “The image of a reading woman is far from neutral. Repeated, staged, captured in passing – it recurs so often that it becomes an archetype..." - new at josefchladek.com -

Thomas Sauvin - "Until Death Do Us Part" (2015) - "... focuses on the unexpected role cigarettes play in Chinese weddings. As a token of appreciation, it is customary for the bride to light a cigarette for each and every man invited..." - more at josefchladek.com/sauvin

Juergen Teller - "Go-Sees" (1999) - "At the beginning of this book there was a simple idea that struck Teller: why not photograph all his young female visitors and turn the result into a convincing conceptual piece of art photography?" - more at josefchladek.com/teller

Christopher Anderson - "Stump" (2013) - "Stump is a radical close-up treatment of the spectacle of American politics in an era marked by unprecedented political partisanship, most notably during the [then] recent presidential campaign..." - more at josefchladek.com/stump

Paul Graham - "A1: The Great North Road" (1983) - "... was transformative on photography in the UK and paved the way for a new generation of British colour photographers to emerge ..." - more at josefchladek.com/graham

Chargesheimer - "Im Ruhrgebiet" (1958) - "When the legendary photo book 'Im Ruhrgebiet' was published in 1958, people were not very enthusiastic about what the two Rhinelanders had captured on their journey..." - new at josefchladek.com/chargesheimer

Paul Graham - "Beyond Caring" (1986) - "The work shocked many on its release – leading Magnum photographers were outraged by its use of colour in a classic documentary topic, while others celebrated how it straddled the world of activism and art" - more at josefchladek.com/graham

Julie van der Vaart - "Particles" (2025) - "Much of Julie's work conveys this sense of dissolution. The bodies depicted are not fixed; rather, they appear to merge with the sea, becoming one with her, as if part of the endless flow of transformation." - more at josefchladek.com/vandervaart

Oliver Gerhartz - "The waning season" (2025) - "After the fall of a 30-year-long dictatorship in 2019, Sudan entered a period of uncertainty—a mixture of fragile hope and lingering fear filled the air..." - new at josefchladek.com

Ció Prat i Bofill - "Milions d’estels i un somni" - "a million stars and a dream" (2025) - "Its images convey the longing for a love that, once finally realized, explodes like a supernova and transforms into memory." - new at josefchladek.com

John Gossage - "The Romance industry" (2002) - John's images are extraordinary in their own unique way and truly in a league of their own – his work is among the most impressive and continues to captivate, even after the tenth viewing... - more at josefchladek.com/gossage

Regina Anzenberger - "The Australian Journey" (2025) - "In March 2024, Regina Anzenberger traveled to Australia, again. Ever since taking her first trip there in 1989, her artistic work has been repeatedly inspired by the natural world of this continent...." - more at josefchladek.com/anzenberger

Pieter Hugo - "The Hyena & Other Men" (2007) - "Accompanied by hyenas, rock pythons and baboons, these men earn a living by performing before crowds and selling traditional medicines...." - more at josefchladek.com/hugo

Robert Delford Brown - "First Class Portraits" (1973) - "A self-published artist’s book featuring 29 xeroxed black-and-white portraits of prominent figures from the 1970s New York avant-garde scene..." - new at josefchladek.com

Tomáš Chadim - "Znásilněná krajina / Violated landscape" (2022) - "We are, by nature, aggressive beings, extensively violating the landscape. Yet I find all these structures fascinating and highly attractive, for we are not only invasive beings but also creative." - new at josefchladek.com

Bernhard Fuchs - "Autos" (2006) - "...The cars in the landscape had an impact on me, similar to the impact of actors on a stage, and since then I began to collect their wit and their tragedy." - more at josefchladek.com/fuchs

Robert Longo - "Men in the Cities" (2009 - shots taken between 1976 and 1982 ) - "His photos were a means to an end. I don't think he appreciated how good they were on their own." (Cindy Sherman) - more at josefchladek.com/longo

Gregory Halpern - "King, Queen, Knave" (2024) - "... Halpern confronts the complexities of his birthplace and of contemporary America at large, seeing beauty intertwined with ugliness and redemption with despair." - new at josefchladek.com

Ken Domon - "Hiroshima" (土門拳写真集　ヒロシマ - 土門拳 - 1958) - "The events are recorded in a careful and respectful way, as if the act of making a book could somehow begin the process of reconciliation and healing." (Parr & Badger, The Photobook: A History, Vol. 1) - new at josefchladek.com

Christian Reister - "Pressure" (2025) - "Its foundation lies in reproductions of silkscreen and gel plate prints, selected from a broad archive of motifs ranging from urban landscapes and portraits to other visual worlds." - new at josefchladek.com

Christoph Schieder - "Berlin - Leipzig" (2025) - A mesmerizing small series/zine that feels painted rather than photographed. New at josefchladek.com

Dima Gavrysh - "Inshallah" (2015) - "Inshallah explores the Soviet and American occupations of Afghanistan, and draws on my childhood fantasies that romanticize the military and intertwine with my past and present personal conflicts..." - more at josefchladek.com/gavrysh

Tom Wood - "All Zones Off Peak" (1998) - A deeply admired classic - " The photographs are both visually stunning and dramatically revealing in their content. It is already recognised as one of the most impressive achievements of recent British photography." - more at josefchladek.com/wood

Kikuji Kawada - "The Map – Chizu", 川田喜久治 地図 (1965) - "While relentlessly tracking the “stains” scattered across walls and ceiling of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Kawada projects memories of the war through young soldiers’ portraits and letters, ruined fortresses, etc." josefchladek.com/kawad

Kikuji Kawada - "The Map – Chizu", 川田喜久治 地図 (1965, 2005, 2014) - ... often heralded as the most important photobook of the 20th century... " - more at josefchladek.com/kawada

Heinrich Riebesehl - "Situationen und Objekte" (1978) - "Before he discovered this objective, documentary style, Heinrich Riebesehl created this photo series in the mid-1970s in which he blended reality with a touch of irony and magic." - more at josefchladek.com/riebesehl

Johannes Groht - "Insight Grindel" (2025) - "The Grindel Quarter is a district of Hamburg characterized by small shops and international cuisine. Just as in days past, Jewish life once again pulses here amid a diversity of academic, cultural, and religious influences ..." - new at josefchladek.com

Rinko Kawauchi - "Illuminance" (2011) - "Kawauchi's photography has frequently been lauded for its nuanced palette and offhand compositional mastery, as well as its ability to incite wonder via careful attention to tiny gestures..." - more at josefchladek.com/kawauchi

Lucas Olivet - "Medicine Tree" (2024) - "...offers a lyrical and tense reflection on a region at once wild and poisoned by industry, unknown to the majority of Vancouverites, bypassed by tourists, silently servicing the country’s (Canada, the US...) pulp and paper needs." - new at josefchladek.com

Albert Renger-Patzsch - "Eisen und Stahl" (1931) - Although it isn’t as avant-garde as Germaine Krull’s work, it must be understood in the context of the Werkbund movement and is nonetheless a striking photography book - new at josefchladek.com

Luca Bani & Gael del Río - "Oddments" (2024) - "... is an involuntary photographic project. It reflects on the leftovers of discourse, on the surplus of the processes that take place in the darkroom, on what is forgotten..." - new at josefchladek.com

András Ladocsi - "There is a big river ..." (2024) - “In Hungary, we grew up with a generational anxiety about how a man can’t connect to the world through his emotions, and I want to change this...” (András Ladocsi) - new at josefchladek.com

Moises Saman - "Discordia" (2016) - " Over these years, the many revolutions overlapped and in my mind became one blur, one story in itself. In order to tell this story the way I experienced it, I felt the need to transcend a linear journalistic language..." - more at josefchladek.com/saman

David Jiménez - "Infinito" (2000) - "In Infinito one notices immediately the language of poetry: we find images inviting us to establish a relationship between them but their rhythm or equivalence is a priori veiled to us. ..." - more at josefchladek.com/jimenez

Tomoyuki Sakaguchi - "Home" (2007) - "This Japanese photographer eloquently explores suburban scenes in and around Tokyo. With an eye that is both disquieting and beautiful, he is one of the many photographers contributing to the revival of interest in night shooting." josefchladek.com/sakaguchi

Helge Skodvin - "240 Landscapes" (2015) - "With these photographs, I want to show how we live, how our surroundings look. I wish to portray the everyday landscape. A photographic documentation of the landscape we inhabit." (Helge Skodvin) - more at josefchladek.com/skodvin

Anna Clarén - "Holding" (2006) - "The book’s story is, in many ways, a self portrait, but deep down inside, human beings are very alike. ..." (Anna Clarén) - more at josefchladek.com/claren

Arts et Métiers Graphiques - "Photographie 1930" (1930) - The vast majority of images in the seminal 1930 issue (#1) are in portrait orientation; only a handful are in landscape. Here is a selection: Max Burchartz, André Kertesz, Laure Albin-Guillot and Hans Finsler josefchladek.com/artsmetiers

David Goldblatt - "Particulars" (2003) - "In 1975, after working for several years on portraits of the residents of Soweto and Johannesburg in their homes and on the streets, Goldblatt began to explore the“particulars” of their bodies..." - more at josefchladek.com/goldblatt

Pentti Sammallahti - "Here Far Away" (2012) - "Here Far Away is the first major retrospective book of the leading international photographer Pentti Sammallahti. It covers more than forty years of work and unfolds in almost as many countries." - more at josefchladek.com/sammallahti

Anna Galí - "Time on Quaaludes and Red Wine" (2024) - "In March 2017, when her 18-year-old son, Tomeu, tragically died from an overdose, Anna Galí made the shocking discovery of a side of his life he had been sharing on social media but hiding from her." - new at josefchladek.com

Erich Einhorn - "Prager Alltag" (1958) - Einhorn produced several remarkable books and made significant contributions to Czech photography, here are some images from one of my favourite books by him, translates to "Everyday Prague". More at josefchladek.com/einhorn

Soichiro Koriyama - "Fukushima Black Rain" (2013) - Moving portait of Fukushima in the aftermath of the tsunami and nuclear disaster - more at josefchladek.com/koriyama

Bill Brandt - "Perspective of Nudes" (1961) - "These startling images rewrote the language of nude photography" - more at josefchladek.com/brandt

Miguel Rio Branco - "Silent Book" (1997) - "My work has a lot to do with skin, for that is the surface connecting us to the world, in pleasure as much as in pain. Skin is a dialogue between outside and inside, a separation that is also a connection." - Miguel Rio Branco josefchladek.com/branco

Carolyn Drake - "Two Rivers" (2013) - I was amazed back then—and time has only proven it—this remains an outstanding body of work. - more at josefchladek.com/drake

Viktor Kolár - "Ostrava" (2010) - Some more of this masterpiece - "... Although he captures the unique character of this mining town, he also notices some of the distinctive traits of urban society, especially alienation." - more at josefchladek.com/kolar