is a Japanese photography critic, historian of photography, and magazine editor.

Born in Sendai, Miyagi

Miyagi Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku Region on Honshu island. The capital is Sendai.- History :Miyagi Prefecture was formerly part of the province of Mutsu. Mutsu Province, on northern Honshu, was one of the last provinces to be formed as land was taken from the indigenous Emishi, and became the...

 in 1954, Iizawa studied photography in Nihon University

Nihon University

Nihon University is the largest university in Japan. Akiyoshi Yamada, the minister of justice, founded Nihon Law School in October 1889....

, graduating in 1977. He obtained his doctorate at University of Tsukuba

University of Tsukuba

is located in the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture in the Kantō region of Japan. The University has 28 college clusters and schools with a total of around 15,000 students...

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Iizawa founded Déjà-vu in 1990 and was its editor in chief until 1994. He coedited the 41-volume series Nihon no Shashinka with Shigeichi Nagano

Shigeichi Nagano

Born on 30 March 1925 in Ōita City, Nagano studied economics at Keio University . On graduating, he joined a trading company, but soon resigned. He was recruited by Natori Yōnosuke for Weekly Sun News ; and in 1949 moved to Iwanami Shoten where, again under Natori, he did the photography for about...

 and Naoyuki Kinoshita

Naoyuki Kinoshita

is a Japanese art historian. He currently works in the University of Tokyo. He was born on Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture and graduated from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. He took part in publishing the book The History of Japanese Photography as an essayist along with Kōtarō...

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Books by Iizawa

• "Geijutsu shashin" to sono jidai . Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 1986. ISBN 4-480-87089-X.
• Nūdo shashin no mikata . Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1987. ISBN 4-10-601949-3.
• Shashin ni kaere . Tokyo: Heibonsha, 1988. ISBN 4-582-23104-7.
• Toshi no shisen . Osaka: Sōgensha, 1989. ISBN 4-422-70054-5.
  • Toshi no shisen: Nihon no shashin 1920–30 nendai . Tokyo: Heibonsha, 2005. ISBN 4-582-76555-6. Expanded edition.
• Shashin no chikara . Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1989. ISBN 4-560-03941-0.
• Shashin no mori no pikunikku . Tokyo: , 1991. ISBN 4-02-256369-9.
• Shashin to fetishizumu / La photographie et le fetichisme. Tokyo: Treville, 1992. ISBN 4-8457-0516-8.
• Nihon-shashinshi o aruku . Tokyo: Shinchōsha, 1992. ISBN 4-10-388501-7.
• Sengo shashinshi nōto . Tokyo: Chūōkōronsha, 1993. ISBN 4-12-101112-0.
• Shashin no genzai: Kuronikuru 1983–1992 . Tokyo: Miraisha, 1993. ISBN 4-624-71061-4.
• Araki! . Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 1994. ISBN 4-560-03860-0. About Nobuyoshi Araki
  Nobuyoshi Araki
  is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He is also known by the nickname .-Life and career:Araki was born in Tokyo, studied photography during his college years and then went to work at the advertising agency Dentsu, where he met his future wife, the essayist Yōko Araki...
  
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• Tōkyō shashin . Tokyo: Inax, 1995. ISBN 4-8099-1059-8.
• Shashin bijutsukan e yōkoso . Tokyo: Kōdansha, 1996. ISBN 4-06-149287-X.
• Fotogurafāzu . Tokyo: Sakuhinsha, 1996. ISBN 4-87893-250-3.
• Shattā ando ravu / Shutter and Love: Girls are dancin' on in Tokyo. Tokyo: Infasu, 1996. ISBN 4-900785-05-9.
• Shashin to gurotesuku / La photographie et le grotesque. Tokyo: Treville, 1996. ISBN 4-8457-1082-X.
• Shashinshū no tanoshimi . Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 1998. ISBN 4-02-257235-3.
• Dōjidai shashin: クロニクル1993–1997 . Tokyo: Miraisha, 1999. ISBN 4-624-71079-7.
• Wareta kagami-tachi no kuni de: Nihon no seikimatsu shashin / In the Country of Broken Mirrors: Japanese Contemporary Photographers. Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1999. ISBN 4-620-31381-5.
• (joint author) Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu . Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. ISBN 4-00-008381-3.
• Shi-shashinron . Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2000. ISBN 4-480-87614-6.
• Shashin no kuni no Arisu . Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten, 2001.
• Afurika okurimono . Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten, 2001. ISBN 4-8340-1774-5.
• Aruku kinoko . Tokyo: Suiseisha, 2001. ISBN 4-89176-450-3.
• Shōjo ko-shashinkan . Tokyo: Chikuma Shobō, 2001. ISBN 4-480-08667-6.
• "Shashin jidai" no jidai! . Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2002. ISBN 4-560-03890-2.
• Boku no kage o sagashite . Tokyo: Fukuinkan Shoten, 2003.
• Shashin to kotoba: Shashinka nijūgonin . Tokyo: Shūeisha, 2003. ISBN 4-08-720176-7.
• Shashin hyōronka . Tokyo: Madosha, 2003. ISBN 4-89625-044-3.
• (joint author) The History of Japanese Photography, ed. Ann Wilkes Tucker, et al. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-300-09925-8.
• Dejigurafi: Dejitaru wa shashin o korosu ka? . Tokyo: Chūōkōronsha, 2004. ISBN 4-12-003488-7.
• Me kara me e: Shashinten o aruku 2001-2003 . Tokyo: Misuzu Shobō, 2004. ISBN 4-622-07088-X.
• Shashin ni tsuite hanasō . Tokyo: Kadokawa Gakugei Shuppan, 2004. ISBN 4-04-651516-3.
• Sekai shashinshi / The Concise History of World Photograph. Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2004. ISBN 4-568-40068-6.
• Japanīzu fotogurafāzu: 14-nin no shashinka-tachi no "ima" . Tokyo: Hakusuisha, 2005. ISBN 4-560-02705-6.
• Abunai shashinshū 246 . Tokyo: Studio Parabolica, 2005. ISBN 4-902916-03-7.
• Araki-bon! 1970–2005 . Tokyo: Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2006. ISBN 4-568-12071-3. A descriptive bibliography of the books of Nobuyoshi Araki
  Nobuyoshi Araki
  is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist. He is also known by the nickname .-Life and career:Araki was born in Tokyo, studied photography during his college years and then went to work at the advertising agency Dentsu, where he met his future wife, the essayist Yōko Araki...
  
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• Fotogurafā ni naru no wa . Tokyo: Naruniwa Books, 2007. ISBN 978-4-8315-1153-9.
• Sekai no kinoko kitte / Around the World with a Mushroom Stamp. Tokyo: Puchigurapa Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-4-903267-61-6.
• Shashin o tanoshimu . Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2007. ISBN 978-4-00-431106-5.
• (edited) Nihon no shashinka 101 . Tokyo: Shinshokan, 2008. ISBN 978-4-403-25095-8.

External links

• "Shashin hyōronka Iizawa Kōtarō: Shashin to kotoba" . Bunka kaigi. A wide-ranging interview with Iizawa.