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Krass Clement - "Født af mørket - Sankt Petersborg" (2025) - A large photographic work about the atmosphere and people in Saint Petersburg, taken a few years before Russia's invasion of Ukraine." - new at josefchladek.com/clement
November 29, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Krass Clement - "Født af mørket - Sankt Petersborg" (2025) - A large photographic work about the atmosphere and people in Saint Petersburg, taken a few years before Russia's invasion of Ukraine." - new at josefchladek.com/clement
Jan Holkup - "Posedy / Hunting Stands" (2025) -"Hunting lodges and pulpits are elevated observation posts used for observing or hunting forest game. Among other things, they are also remarkable examples of "architecture without architects"." - new at josefchladek.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Jan Holkup - "Posedy / Hunting Stands" (2025) -"Hunting lodges and pulpits are elevated observation posts used for observing or hunting forest game. Among other things, they are also remarkable examples of "architecture without architects"." - new at josefchladek.com
Elizabeth Alderliesten - "Remember Who You Once Were" (2024) - stunnigly beautiful book/work! - "By connecting with your inner self, detached from the outside world and its many demands, you
recharge." - new at josefchladek.com
recharge." - new at josefchladek.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Elizabeth Alderliesten - "Remember Who You Once Were" (2024) - stunnigly beautiful book/work! - "By connecting with your inner self, detached from the outside world and its many demands, you
recharge." - new at josefchladek.com
recharge." - new at josefchladek.com
There’s always an exception to the rule. I really don’t like having more than one edition of a book in my library (why would I?) — but with Robert Frank’s “The Americans,” often regarded as the photobook, it’s different for me. More at josefchladek.com/tag/the_americans
November 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
There’s always an exception to the rule. I really don’t like having more than one edition of a book in my library (why would I?) — but with Robert Frank’s “The Americans,” often regarded as the photobook, it’s different for me. More at josefchladek.com/tag/the_americans
Egon H. Strassburger - "Kinder" (1931) - nice edits, crops - and great images - not by the least names in the field - for example L. Moholy-Nagy, E. Lendvai-Dircksen, Cami Stone, v. Debschitz-Kunowski, Lore Feininger and many more. New at josefchladek.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Egon H. Strassburger - "Kinder" (1931) - nice edits, crops - and great images - not by the least names in the field - for example L. Moholy-Nagy, E. Lendvai-Dircksen, Cami Stone, v. Debschitz-Kunowski, Lore Feininger and many more. New at josefchladek.com
John Gossage - "Berlin in the Time of the Wall" (2004) - "But the legacy of Berlin on the work of John Gossage went far deeper. Berlin, one might say, is the place where photography became both easy and difficult for him..." - more at josefchladek.com/gossage
October 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
John Gossage - "Berlin in the Time of the Wall" (2004) - "But the legacy of Berlin on the work of John Gossage went far deeper. Berlin, one might say, is the place where photography became both easy and difficult for him..." - more at josefchladek.com/gossage
Adriano Zanni - "Sequenze di Fabbrica" (2025) - "Adriano Zanni was born in 1964 in Ravenna. In the last 30 years he has lived, worked, walked those same places, documenting visually and sonically the cumbersome presence of those seemingly alien structures..." - new at josefchladek.com
October 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Adriano Zanni - "Sequenze di Fabbrica" (2025) - "Adriano Zanni was born in 1964 in Ravenna. In the last 30 years he has lived, worked, walked those same places, documenting visually and sonically the cumbersome presence of those seemingly alien structures..." - new at josefchladek.com
Bernhard Fuchs - "Heustock" (2025) - "Walther König's seventh book published with Bernhard Fuchs (born 1971), Hayloft, features a series of hidden hayloft spaces in farms and barns around the photographer's home in Upper Austria, taken between 2018 and 2024."- more at josefchladek.com/fuchs
October 6, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Bernhard Fuchs - "Heustock" (2025) - "Walther König's seventh book published with Bernhard Fuchs (born 1971), Hayloft, features a series of hidden hayloft spaces in farms and barns around the photographer's home in Upper Austria, taken between 2018 and 2024."- more at josefchladek.com/fuchs
Viviane Sassen - "Sol & Luna" (2009, 2013) - "Originally produced as an initiative for Swedish fashion brand Our Legacy in 2009 as an alternative to a runway show, Viviane Sassen (b. 1972, Dutch) was commissioned to portray androgyny and beauty as key principles." ... more at josefchladek.com/sassen
October 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Viviane Sassen - "Sol & Luna" (2009, 2013) - "Originally produced as an initiative for Swedish fashion brand Our Legacy in 2009 as an alternative to a runway show, Viviane Sassen (b. 1972, Dutch) was commissioned to portray androgyny and beauty as key principles." ... more at josefchladek.com/sassen
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
September 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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
September 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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
September 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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
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September 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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
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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
August 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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
August 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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
August 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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
August 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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
August 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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
July 27, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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
July 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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
July 23, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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
July 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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
July 12, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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
July 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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
July 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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