Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, professionally known as Hiro, is an American commercial photographer. He was born in Shanghai
in 1930 to Japanese parents.
Hiro's work in fashion and still life
from the mid-1960s onward has inspired many and remains a
lasting influence today.
Hiro's family returned to Japan from China at the end of the Second World War. In 1954, he went to America, and briefly enrolled in the School of Modern Photography in New York.
At the end of 1956, he began working for the fashion photographer Richard Avedon. Around the same time, Hiro encountered Alexey Brodovitch, the art director at Harper's Bazaar, and worked as his assistant for a time, during Brodovitch's Design Laboratory at the New School.
By the end of 1957, Hiro was no longer Avedon’s assistant, and had
launched his own career. Within only a few years, Hiro became a star
fashion photographer in his own right. He made significant contributions
as a staff photographer to Harper's Bazaar from 1956 to 1975, and was named Photographer of the Year by the American Society of Magazine Photographers in 1969. One of his early celebrated photographs is a 1963 image of a Harry Winston
diamond necklace placed on a bovine hoof. Here we can also see his famous photograph of Jerry Hall.
Hiro is well known for his unique aesthetic, extreme originality, and the precision of execution of his vision. The trade magazine American Photographer devoted an entire issue to him in 1982. Hiro is represented by Pace/MacGill Gallery in New York.
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