{
  "type": "book",
  "site": {
    "name": "The Book Quiver",
    "language": "en-US",
    "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com"
  },
  "formats": "Every page has two versions with the same data: JSON (the page address + .json) and markdown (the page address + .md). Append .json or .md to any `url` in this document.",
  "title": "DIARIES",
  "subtitle": null,
  "slug": "diaries",
  "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/josef-koudelka/diaries",
  "json": "https://www.bookquiver.com/josef-koudelka/diaries.json",
  "markdown": "https://www.bookquiver.com/josef-koudelka/diaries.md",
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Josef Koudelka",
      "slug": "josef-koudelka",
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/josef-koudelka"
    }
  ],
  "language": "en_US",
  "original_title": null,
  "original_language": null,
  "first_published": "2026-05-14",
  "genres": [
    {
      "code": "A",
      "heading": "The Arts"
    },
    {
      "code": "AJ",
      "heading": "Photography and photographs"
    },
    {
      "code": "AK",
      "heading": "Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration"
    },
    {
      "code": "AM",
      "heading": "Architecture"
    }
  ],
  "series": [],
  "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/aperture/josef-koudelka/diaries_978-15-9711-593-3-356442f5.webp?v=2026-10-25%2003%3A17%3A05",
  "description": "A rare glimpse into the mind and artistic process of one of the world’s greatest photographers. Distilled from sixty-nine journals kept over the course of fifty-plus years, Josef Koudelka: Diaries offers a look inside the mind and artistic process of the iconoclastic Czech photographer renowned for a life in exile and legendary projects on the Roma, the 1968 Soviet-led invasion in Prague, and the devastating impact humans have on the landscape. Facsimile pages from the diaries, along with images by the photographer, including self-portraits, lend the volume an immediacy and authenticity. As curator Tomáš Pospech writes, “Koudelka’s diaries are a ‘cookbook’ of classic photography. He associated with the most renowned photographers. His notes sum up his rich experience, including with the now-vanishing technology of analog black-and-white photography. His remarks, quips, and stories reappear, just as he repeatedly made resolutions, affirmed the rules he had adopted, and recalled earlier events and dreams.” Diaries is a perfect companion to Josef Koudelka: Next (2023), the visual biography by Melissa Harris.",
  "editions": [
    {
      "title": "DIARIES",
      "subtitle": null,
      "url": "https://www.bookquiver.com/josef-koudelka/diaries/9781597115933",
      "publisher": "Aperture",
      "publisher_series": [],
      "translators": [],
      "medium": "paper",
      "duration_seconds": null,
      "narrators": [],
      "illustrators": [],
      "cover_artists": [],
      "isbn": "978-15-9711-593-3",
      "pages": 472,
      "published": "2026-05-14",
      "language": "en_US",
      "cover": "https://quivercdn.com/covers/aperture/josef-koudelka/diaries_978-15-9711-593-3-356442f5.webp?v=2026-10-25%2003%3A17%3A05"
    }
  ],
  "other_languages": [],
  "characters": [],
  "chapters": []
}