Kazuo Nishii
Kazuo Nishii was a Japanese magazine editor and photography critic. Nishii was born in Tokyo in 1946. He graduated in economics from Keio University in 1968, and shortly after this moved to the company publishing Mainichi Shimbun, rising via stints at Sunday Mainichi and Mainich Graph to become editor in chief of Camera Mainichi from 1983 until the magazine folded in 1985.
Kazuo Nishii
- Born
- 1946 · Tokyo.
- Died
- 2001
- Nationality
- Japan · Empire of Japan
- Occupation
- critic · editing staff · actor · photographer
- Fields
- photography
- Education
- Keio University
- Languages
- English · Japanese
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Kazuo Nishii was a Japanese magazine editor and photography critic. Nishii was born in Tokyo in 1946. He graduated in economics from Keio University in 1968, and shortly after this moved to the company publishing Mainichi Shimbun, rising via stints at Sunday Mainichi and Mainich Graph to become editor in chief of Camera Mainichi from 1983 until the magazine folded in 1985.
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1946
Kazuo Nishii was born in 1946 at Tokyo.
2001
Kazuo Nishii died in 2001.
Books by Nishii
After the demise of Camera Mainichi, Nishii worked as an editor for various book-publishing projects of Mainichi Shinbun-sha. Nishii first proposed the Society of Photography Award and played a major role in setting it up.
• Hizuke no aru shashinron. Tokyo: Seikyūsha, 1981. • Shashin to iu media (The medium called photographs). Tokyo: Tōjunsha, 1982. • Shōwa 20-nen Tōkyō chizu (A map of Tokyo, 1945–50). Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1986.. • Shōwa 20-nen Tōkyō chizu: zoku (A map of Tokyo, 1945–50, continued). Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1987.. • Kurayami no ressun. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 1992.. • Sengo 50-nen (Fifty years after the war). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1995. • Distance: Eiga o meguru danshō (Distance: 映画をめぐる断章). Tokyo: Kage Shobō, 1996.. • Shashinteki kioku (Photographic memories). Tokyo: Seikyūsha, 1997.. • Shashin no yosoyososhisa. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 1996.. • Naze imada "Purovōku" ka. Tokyo: Seikyūsha, 1996.. • 20-seki shashinron: Shūshō. Tokyo: Seikyūsha, 2001.. • Daido Moriyama. Phaidon 55. London: Phaidon, 2001.. • Shashin-henshūsha: Yamagishi Shōji e no omāju (Photo editor: A homage to Shōji Yamagishi). Tokyo: Mado-sha, 2002..
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