Alec Soth, som jag nämnt här I bloggen förr, var fram tills nyligen den enda fotografen i legendariska Magnum som bloggade. Men nu har Magnum startat en blogg själva, där alla fotografer har möjlighet att skriva.

Chris Steele-Perkins är en av dem. Ur hans senaste inlägg i Magnum-bloggen – det handlar om tillblivelsen av hans nya bok ”Tokyo Love Hello” – hämtar jag dessa citat:

Even though that will be different for each photographer, the question remains the same: what does "What I want to say" actually mean in a medium that is primarily wordless?
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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.
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I never actually saw Tokyo Love Hello written on a T-shirt, I made it up. It is not clear what it means, but you think you understand. That is what I want my book to do; it won't explain anything, but perhaps you will begin to understand something about this great and special city.