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Stephen Shore - "Uncommon Places" (1982) - "Among the first artists to take color beyond advertising and fashion photography, Shore's large-format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what has become a vital photographic tradition." - new at josefchladek.com
February 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Jerker Andersson - "ABC Diary - Car Diary" (2025) - "A passenger car is driven on the roads for an average of four percent of its lifetime. The remaining ninety-six percent of the time, the car is stationary (Source: RAC Foundation, UK)." - new at josefchladek.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Matteo Girola - "Viewfinders" (2025) - "These images thus portray figures looking into the viewfinder, and in the wrong, alternative gesture of holding the camera upside down, they become finders of new views (viewfinders)." - new at josefchladek.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Paul Graham - "End of an Age" (1999) - "These colour images are portraits in the fullest sense - images that seek to reflect on the inner self through our material presence." - more at josefchladek.com/graham
February 8, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Jerker Andersson - "ABC Diary - Building Diary" (2025) - "Every building carries a story and serves different functions in people’s lives. Some are public, others privately owned. Some symbolize power and defense..." - new at josefchladek.com
February 8, 2026 at 8:58 AM
Siri Kaur - "Sistermoon" (2025) - "The images collectively form a freewheeling narrative with recurring family characters growing and transforming as the pages turn..." - new at josefchladek.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Jerker Andersson - "ABC Diary - Animal Diary" (2025) - "Animals are everywhere around us, wild and domesticated. Most animals are intelligent and have impressive memories. They have emotions and communicate in different ways." - new at josefchladek.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Alessandra Calò - "Ctonio" (2024) - "It is no coincidence that the title of the project Ctonio accompanies us in a dimension where dialogue with the place cannot be separated from a reflection on identity." - new at josefchladek.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Hiromix - "Girls Blue" (1996) - "Her comment on the book's jacket shows all the arrogance of youth: 'Photography is the place where I can express all ... I feel and think in my everyday life. It would not be understood by grown-ups or kids – only we can see what it is.'" - josefchladek.com/hiromix
January 25, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Tehching Hsieh - "One Year Performance" (2025) - "He sealed himself in a purpose-built cage in his studio and remained there in solitary confinement without any communication for 365 days." - new at josefchladek.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Léon-Paul Fargue & Roger Parry & Fabian Loris - "Banalité" (1930) - "... produced a series of beautiful photographs to illustrate a deluxe edition of Surrealist poems and prose pieces by Léon-Paul Fargue. ..." - new at josefchladek.com
January 24, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Raymond Thompson Jr - "It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel" (2025) - "The project is centered around the city of New Bern, North Carolina in the US—established in 1710 as hub for the trade of human beings —an area rich with historic moments..." - new at josefchladek.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Gerry Johansson - "Antarktis" (2014) - "The glaring light made it hard to gauge distances and heights. What looked like a rock fifty metres off could just as well be a mountaintop rising over the ice plain ..." - more at josefchladek.com/johansson
January 19, 2026 at 7:36 AM
Pedro J. Saavedra - "Donde el viento da la vuelta" (2023) - "... brings together more than fifteen years of photographic work in Isla Mayor (Seville). Pedro J. Saavedra creates an essay that combines observation, reflection, and the will to highlight the value of the place." new at josefchladek.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Katrien de Blauwer - "I do not want to disappear silently into the night" (2014) - "KDB’s work calls to mind the techniques of photomontage or film editing, using the cut as border or frame that determines what is visible and essential..." - more at josefchladek.com/deblauwer
January 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Albert Renger-Patzsch - "Die Welt ist schön" (1931) - "One of the best-known titles in photobook history, Die Welt ist schön was originally going to be called Die Dinge (Things)..." - new at josefchladek.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Albert Renger-Patzsch - "Die Welt ist schön" (1931) - "One of the best-known titles in photobook history, Die Welt ist schön was originally going to be called Die Dinge (Things)..." - new at josefchladek.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Pia Paulina Guilmoth & Jesse Bull Saffire - "Fishworm" (2025) - "The book collects these rescues, re-assemblies, and accidents: material both tender and grotesque, mundane and uncanny. Among them are photographs taken by Pia and Jesse on 8 MP digital cameras." - new at josefchladek.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Michael Rathmayr – "Remedy" (2025) - "Today, the Amalienbad still accommodates swimmers and athletes of all ages, standing testimony to the lasting impact of a bygone, bright red utopia." - new at josefchladek.com
January 4, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Mikio Tobara - "Document Miseinen" (1980) - "... focused on documenting "bōsōzoku"," juvenile delinquency", and "teenage prostitution", dedicating most of his work in the 1970s to these subjects. This book is a record of his long-term research spanning five and a half years." josefchladek.com
January 3, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Ray K. Metzker - "City Lux" (2025) - "...is today recognized as one of the great masters of American photography. Trained at the progressive Institute of Design in Chicago Metzker developed a distinctly experimental style early on." - new at josefchladek.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Jeff Mermelstein - "What if Jeff were a Butterfly?" (2025) - "This book was born from over two hundred images of flowers—an unexpected output for Jeff Mermelstein has been making photographs on the streets of New York for decades." - new at josefchladek.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Henrik Spohler - "Flatlands" (2023) - "For his latest project, Henrik Spohler traveled to the Netherlands on five extended trips in 2020/21, totaling 7,500 km. On these journeys he looked at this country in the heart of Western Europe from the perspective of an outsider." - new at josefchladek.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Man Ray - "Photographie n'est pas L'Art" (1937) - "There’s no point trying to find out if it’s an art. Art is a thing of the past. We need something else. You’ve got to watch light at work. It’s light that creates. I sit down in front of my sheet of photographic paper and I think.” josefchladek.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Joselito Verschaeve - "As Long as the Sun Lasts" (2025) "In this new work, Verschaeve gathers images from his ever-growing archive to imagine a world on the verge of ending" - new at josefchladek.com
December 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM