Taizō Inagaki

Taizō Inagaki (稲垣泰三, Inagaki Taizō) was a Japanese photographer associated with avant-garde photography in Nagoya. He was among the photographers active in the Nagoya avant-garde milieu during the 1930s and was later counted among the members of Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde.

Early activity MEM's overview of Nagoya avant-garde photography identifies Inagaki as one of the photographers who, together with figures such as Minoru Sakata and Tsugio Tajima, helped form the Nagoya Photo Gruppe by 1934. In Surrealism Beyond Borders, he is identified together with Kansuke Yamamoto and Tsugio Tajima as part of the group around 1939–40.

Mesemu zoku Inagaki's work was included in Mesemu zoku: Chōgenjitsushugi shashin-shū / Mesemb, 20 photographies surréalistes (1940), a collaborative photobook associated with Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde.

Copies survive in institutional collections including the British Museum and the Nagoya City Art Museum.

Position in Nagoya photography Inagaki is relevant to the history of Photography in Nagoya as one of the photographers who helped shape the city's prewar avant-garde network and its wartime Surrealist-inflected offshoots. His career is also relevant to accounts of avant-garde photography in Japan, especially through the activities of Nagoya Photo Avant-Garde and related photographers such as Kansuke Yamamoto.