FUJI

Fuji, as seen by Chris Steele-Perkins, emerges as a meditation on modern Japan and Japanese life. The exquisite images offer a fresh and surprising view of Japan’s iconic mountain and an understanding of the Japanese worldview as seen by an outsider who has penetrated its diversity with astounding clarity, metaphysical insight, and profound complicity. The exquisite images offer a fresh and surprising view of Japan’s iconic mountain, and an understanding of Japan’s worldview as seen by an outsider who has penetrated its diversity with astonishing clarity, metaphysical insight, and profound complicity. Poignant, witty, lively, earthy, plastic, irreverent, mystical, ugly, beautiful—with his myriad views of Mount Fuji, Chris Steele-Perkins shows us not just a famous mountain, but Japan. Hokusai would have welcomed him as a worthy successor. Chris Steele-Perkins is an award-winning photographer and a member of the famed cooperative Magnum Photos, founded by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. His photographs have received the highest awards in journalism and have been featured in international magazines and newspapers, including The London Sunday Times, Stern, The New York Times Magazine, and Paris Match, among others. His work has been exhibited widely in museums internationally and is in numerous museums and collections. Out of Print. Condition: Very Fine/As New. In Shrink Wrap.