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Josef Koudelka: Diaries

Josef Koudelka: Diaries

Koudelka, Josef
Pospěch, Tomás
Paton, Derek

Paperback

Photography History & CriticismPhotographers

Publisher Price: $60.00

ISBN10: 1597115932
ISBN13: 9781597115933
Publisher: Aperture
Published: May 12 2026
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.81
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

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 Tomás Pospěch 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.

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