# DIARIES

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- Authors: [Josef Koudelka](https://www.bookquiver.com/josef-koudelka)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2026-05-14
- Genres: The Arts, Photography and photographs, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration, Architecture

## 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

### DIARIES

- Publisher: Aperture
- ISBN: 978-15-9711-593-3
- Pages: 472
- Published: 2026-05-14
- Language: en_US