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ID: 500071558
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500071558

 

Record Type: Person
Hiro (Japanese-American photographer, 1930-2021)

Note: Hiro came to the United States in the 1950s and began his career as apprentice to Richard Avedon. He soon began working for Harper's Bazaar as staff photographer. He was named photographer of the year by the American Society of Magazine Photographers in 1969. He is known for his fashion photography and still lifes that juxtapose the mundane and the unexpected.

Names:
Hiro (preferred,V,display,Dutch-P,NA)
Yasuhiro Wakabayashi (V)
Wakabayashi, Yasuhiro (U,index)

Nationalities:
American (preferred)
Japanese

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer
fashion photographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Shanghai (Shanghai, China) (inhabited place)
Died:  Erwinna (Bucks county, Pennsylvania, United States) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
assistant of ....  Avedon, Richard  
......................  (American photographer, 1923-2004) [500013773]
student of ....  Brodovitch, Alexey  
..................  (Russian photographer and magazine art director, 1898-1971, active in the United States) [500125873]
teacher of ....  Ohara, Ken  
..................  (Japanese photographer, born 1942) [500349004]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Hiro (I)

Biographies:
(Japanese-American photographer, 1930-2021) ..... [VP Preferred]
(American photographer, b.1930) ..... [BHA]
(American photographer, 1930-) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Hiro ........ [BHA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred]
...........  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
...........  RKD Artists database (2000-) 290333
Wakabayashi, Yasuhiro ........ [RKD]
............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 290333
Yasuhiro Wakabayashi ........ [BHA]
..........................................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)

Subject: ........ [BHA, RKD, VP]
....................  Artprice (1987-) "Hiro." accessed 14 March 2005
....................  BHA, Authority file (1973-)
....................  Hall-Duncan, Fashion Photography (1979)
....................  Parry, Photography Index (1979)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 290333
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q3136231
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
.......... New York Times [online] (2000-) obit. 18 August 2021
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