Welcome to Josef Chladek’s virtual bookshelf — a personal archive of photobooks, art books, and printed matter built since 2012. The shelf below holds more than 3,000 books, displayed as spines you can hover to reveal each cover. The collection ranges from contemporary photography to rare and vintage titles, with notes, scans, and details for every book.
Browsing is free; a one-time donation unlocks high-resolution spreads, larger reading views, and access to private shelves. Hover the spines below to start exploring, or scroll down for the cover grid and curated picks. Enjoy!
The Photobook: A History — Vol. 1
The Photobook: A History — Vol. 2
The Photobook: A History — Vol. 3
Most valuable
Goro Kumada / Ken Domon / Masao Horino / Ihei Kimura and others - Nippon 日本
Nobuyoshi Araki - Xerox Photobook #4 (荒木経惟 ゼロックス写真帳 #4)
John Thomson & Adolphe Smith - Street Life in London with Permanent Photographic Illustrations
Shomei Tomatsu - Photobook 2: Homes, Drifted, Asphalt, Osorezan, etc - 東松照明 写真集2 家・吹きだまり・アスファルト・恐山他