Kōtarō Iizawa

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Kōtarō Iizawa (飯沢 耕太郎, Iizawa Kōtarō, born March 26, 1954) [1] is a Japanese photography critic, historian of photography, and magazine editor. Born in Sendai, Miyagi in 1954, Iizawa studied photography in Nihon University, graduating in 1977. He obtained his doctorate at University of Tsukuba. 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 and Naoyuki Kinoshita.

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  1. "Kōtarō" is the form used in The History of Japanese Photography (2003). Iizawa often has his name romanized as "Kohtaro"; "Kotaro" also appears.

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