Yasuhiro wakabayashi biography examples

Japanese-born American photographer (1930–2021)

Yasuhiro Wakabayashi (若林 康宏, Wakabayashi Yasuhiro) (3 November 1930 – 15 August 2021),^[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 mid-1960s onward.

Yasuhiro wakabayashi biography examples

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 1954, 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 1956, he gained an apprenticeship at Richard Avedon's fashion photography studio in New York City.^[1] In 1957, Avedon recommended him to Alexey Brodovitch, the art director at Harper's Bazaar, and Hiro w