He was named photographer of the year by the ASMP in 1969. As a photographer, Hiro saw himself more as artistic than an artist. “Let’s say I am a creative person. I get bored easily.

A studio perfectionist with an eye for the surreal, Yasuhiro Wakabayashi — the Japanese American photographer known simply as Hiro — took pictures that helped give fashion magazines an ...

Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, the Japanese American photographer known as Hiro, whose fashion and still-life images captured a relentlessly inventive vision of American life that critics likened to those ...