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. After the demise of Came''ra 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.

Books by Nishii

  • Hizuke no aru shashinron. Tokyo: Seikyūsha, 1981.
  • Shashin to iu media. Tokyo: Tōjunsha, 1982.
  • Shōwa 20-nen Tōkyō chizu. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1986..
  • Shōwa 20-nen Tōkyō chizu: zoku. Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1987..
  • Kurayami no ressun. Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 1992..
  • Sengo 50-nen. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1995.
  • Distance: Eiga o meguru danshō. Tokyo: Kage Shobō, 1996..
  • Shashinteki kioku. 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. Tokyo: Mado-sha, 2002..