Think photography and its history, and it’s easy to recall iconic images of New York, Paris or London — cities whose buildings and street life have long provided compelling subjects. Constantly changing, Tokyo is now securing its place in that history of urban images.
Coming on the heels of “Shashin: Photography from Japan” — a series of events held in New York earlier this year — is the summer 2015 issue of “Aperture,” which is devoted to Tokyo and the Japanese photographers who have documented this megalopolis in all its complexity.
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