{"product_id":"josef-koudelka-diaries-9781597115933","title":"Josef Koudelka: Diaries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rare glimpse into the mind and artistic process of one of the world's greatest photographers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistilled from sixty-nine journals kept over the course of fifty-plus years, \u003ci\u003eJosef Koudelka: Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" \u003ci\u003eDiaries\u003c\/i\u003e is a perfect companion to \u003ci\u003eJosef Koudelka: Next\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), the visual biography by Melissa Harris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aperture\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781597115933\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472","brand":"Josef Koudelka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52360440512693,"sku":"9781597115933","price":51.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1c6ddf58-0fd7-48ba-88a3-18f696140ad7.jpg?v=1773720956","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/josef-koudelka-diaries-9781597115933","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}