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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.

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  • 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