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Passings: Hiro, Inventive Fashion and Still-Life Photographer, Dies at 90

By David Schonauer   Tuesday August 24, 2021


Was he America’s greatest photographer?

That was the question that American Photographer magazine asked in a 1982 special issue about Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, the Japanese photographer known as Hiro. A protege of Richard Avedon, Hiro captured “a relentlessly inventive vision of American life” in has fashion and surreal still-life photography, noted …


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