Magnum photographer Chris Steele-Perkins writes on their blog about how he produced his new book:
"I was never concerned with making a conventional travelogue of Tokyo, many exist and are useful guides. I was more interested in atmosphere, feeling, a sense of the strange, the whimsical, the daft, all quite intangible. I wanted the viewer, like me, to feel they sort of understood it, but didn't. They recognised something but could not quite figure it out. That, if you like, was what I wanted to 'say' about Tokyo, or at least part of it. You could call it Art, the conveying of a personal reality. Call it what you like really, but I knew what I wanted to do."
It turns out that his original idea for the cover shot is an image I was thinking about putting in the Random Nihonjin thread sometime:
There's a multimedia essay on the book here
