Hiro (Photographer)

From PHOTOGUIDE.JP

Hiro (1930.11.3) Born as Wakabayashi Yasuhiro in Shanghai, China. High school education in China and Tokyo. Studied at the New School for Social Research, New York 1956-58. Married Elizabeth K. Clark in 1959.

Worked as an assistant to Rouben Samberg, New York 1954-55; Richard Avedon, New York 1954-57; and Alexey Brodovitch, New York 1958-60.

Established Hiro Studio, New York 1958. Freelance from 1958, mostly fashion. Harper's Bazaar staff photographer 1966-74. Hiro is probably more well known in America than in Japan. Work includes fashion, advertising, portraiture, still life, and landscape.

Awards: Gold Medal, Art Directors Club of New York 1968, Photographer of the Year Award, American Society of Magazine Photographers 1969; Newhouse Citation, Syracuse Univ. 1972, Society of Publication Designers Award 1979.