Eiju Otaki (Japanese: 大滝英二) (born 1932) was a Japanese photographer and photojournalist active in the 1950s.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]New York Public Library Photographers’ Identities Catalog record for Eiju Otaki
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,Museum of Modern Art artist record for Eiju Otaki seen by 9 million visitors. 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,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. 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. . and was frequently reproduced in publications on child-rearing.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.
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