Eiju Otaki

Eiju Otaki (Japanese: 大滝英二) (born 1932) was a Japanese photographer and photojournalist active in the 1950s.[1][2]

Recognition

In 1955 Edward Steichen selected Otaki's 1953 photograph of a baby asleep in a sling on mother's back for the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition The Family of Man,[3] seen by 9 million visitors.[4][5] The photograph had been previously published in Ars Camera (Kamera, カメラ, published by Ars アルス) one of the older and longer running of Japanese camera magazines,[6][7] and was frequently reproduced in publications on child-rearing.[8]

References

1. Eiju Otaki; photographs of Danish furniture. In Dansk Kunsthåndværk [Danish Crafts]. København: Landsforeningen Dansk Kunsthåndværk [National Association of  Danish Crafts], June 1957. [Volume 30, No. 6]
2. New York Public Library Photographers’ Identities Catalog record for Eiju Otaki
3. Museum of Modern Art artist record for Eiju Otaki
4. Steichen, Edward; Steichen, Edward, 1879-1973, (organizer.); Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967, (writer of foreword.); Norman, Dorothy, 1905-1997, (writer of added text.); Lionni, Leo, 1910-1999, (book designer.); Mason, Jerry, (editor.); Stoller, Ezra, (photographer.); Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1955). The family of man : the photographic exhibition. Published for the Museum of Modern Art by Simon and Schuster in collaboration with the Maco Magazine Corporation. {{cite book}}: |author6= has generic name (help)
5. Tucker, Anne; Iizawa, Kōtarō, 1954-; Kinoshita, Naoyuki, 1954-; 飯沢, 耕太郎, 1954-; 木下, 直之, 1954-; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Kokusai Kōryū Kikin; 国際交流基金 (2003), The history of Japanese photography, Yale University Press in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, ISBN 978-0-89090-112-0
6. Shirayama Mari (白山眞理). "Nihon no shashin/kamera zasshi" (日本の写真・カメラ雑誌). Nihon shashin-shi gaisetsu (日本写真史概説, "An outline history of photography in Japan"). Tokyo: Iwanami, 1999. ISBN 4-00-008381-3
7. Shirayama Mari (白山眞理). Shashin zasshi no kiseki (写真雑誌の軌跡, "Traces of camera magazines"). Tokyo: JCII Library, 2001. NCID BB04894896.
8. Gabriel Bauret ‘The Family of Man’. In La Revue Des Livres Pour Enfants N° 168-169 AVRIL 1996, p.84. Paris: La Joie par les livres.