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Hiro (photographer)
Japanese-born American photographer (–)
Yasuhiro Wakabayashi (若林 康宏, Wakabayashi Yasuhiro) (3 November – 15 August ),[1] known professionally as Hiro (ヒロ), was a Japanese-American commercial photographer.
He was known for his fashion and still life photography from the mids onward.
Early life
Hiro was born in Shanghai to Japanese parents. His family returned to Japan from China at the end of the Second World War.
Photography career
In , he went to the United States,[1] and briefly enrolled in the School of Modern Photography in New York.[2] He was dissatisfied with the school, however, and apprenticed himself to the studio of Lester Bookbinder and Reuben Samberg.
At the end of , he gained an apprenticeship at Richard Avedon's fashion photography studio in New York City.[1] In , Avedon recommended him to Alexey Brodovitch, the art director at Harper's Bazaar, and Hiro worked there as his assistant for a