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 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.
Books by Nishii
- Hizuke no aru shashinron (). Tokyo: SeikyÃ
«sha, 1981.
- Shashin to iu media (, The medium called photographs). Tokyo: TÃ
Âjunsha, 1982.
- ShÃ
Âwa 20-nen TÃ
ÂkyÃ
 chizu (, A map of Tokyo, 1945–50). Tokyo: Chikuma ShobÃ
Â, 1986. .
- ShÃ
Âwa 20-nen TÃ
ÂkyÃ
 chizu: zoku (, A map of Tokyo, 1945–50, continued). Tokyo: Chikuma ShobÃ
Â, 1987. .
- Kurayami no ressun (). Tokyo: Misuzu ShobÃ
Â, 1992. .
- Sengo 50-nen (, Fifty years after the war). Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1995.
- Distance: Eiga o meguru danshÃ
 (). Tokyo: Kage ShobÃ
Â, 1996. .
- Shashinteki kioku (, Photographic memories). Tokyo: SeikyÃ
«sha, 1997. .
- Shashin no yosoyososhisa (). Tokyo: Misuzu ShobÃ
Â, 1996. .
- Naze imada "PurovÃ
Âku" ka (). Tokyo: SeikyÃ
«sha, 1996. .
- 20-seki shashinron: ShÃ
«shÃ
 (). Tokyo: SeikyÃ
«sha, 2001. .
- Daido Moriyama. Phaidon 55. London: Phaidon, 2001. .
- Shashin-henshÃ
«sha: Yamagishi ShÃ
Âji e no omÃÂju (, Photo editor: A homage to ShÃ
Âji Yamagishi). Tokyo: Mado-sha, 2002. .
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