Hiro - Cheryl Tiegs (Harper’s Bazaar 1974)

Miles Davis ‎– Filles De Kilimanjaro (1968) Cover art by Yasuhiro Wakabayashi.

Veronica Hamel by Hiro for Harper's Bazaar, 1962

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Artist: Yasuhiro Wakabayashi.

Mick Jagger photographed by Hiro (Yasuhiro Wakabayashi), ca. 1976

Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, Models Jacki Adams, Annette Stai & Kim Alexis, US Vogue December 1982.

We Can Be Hiro’s … Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, better known as Hiro, is an American commercial and star fashion photographer born in 1930 in Shanghai, to Japanese parents. After spending a few years working exclusively in fashion, Hiro began to explore landscapes, portraiture and reportage, and ears soon began to prick at his unorthodox compositions and utterly unique point of view. When Hiro expanded beyond fashion, he did portraits of celebrities, including the Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune in 1966, the ‘Rolling Stones’ in 1976 and the writer Robert Penn Warren in 1978. “Is this Man America’s Greatest Photographer?” the cover of ‘American Photographer Magazine' asked beneath a self-portrait in January of 1982, devoting an entire issue to exploring the question. An echo of that same suggestion still rings true: at 86 years old, the seminal photographer continued to work from his studio in Central Park West, New York City, producing elegant and unexpected scenes which fall somewhere between commercial fashion photography and surrealist canvases. Hiro died August 15, 2021 aged 90 in his country home in Erwinna, Pennsylvania. #neonurchin #neonurchinblog #dedicatedtothethingswelove #suzyurchin #ollyurchin #art #music #photography #fashion #film #design #words #pictures #photographer #maverick #alexeybrodovitch #richardavedon #surreal #commericalphotography #fashionphotography #portraits #celebrities #cleanaesthetic #colour #harpersbazaar #japanese #yasuhirowakabayashi #hiro https://www.instagram.com/p/CeDfpAoonF4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Miles Davis — MILES IN THE SKY

Columbia Records [digital play](1968 / 51mins.+53secs.):

00:00 A1 — Stuff [M. Davis] (16.58)

17:06 A2 — Paraphernalia [W. Shorter] (12.36)

29:45 End Side A

30:04 B1 — Black Comedy [T. Williams] (7.25)

37:37 B2 — Country Son (M. Davis] (13.49)

51:25 End Side B

Miles In The Sky album musicians:

• Miles Davis - Trumpet

• Herbie Hancock - Piano and Electric Piano

• Wayne Shorter - Tenor Saxophone

• Ron Carter - Bass

• Tony Williams - Drums

• George Benson - Guitar on A2, Paraphernalia

Recorded January 16 and May 15-17, 1968 at Columbia Studio B in New York City USA

Released on July 22, 1968

Produced by Teo Macero

Engineering - Frank Laico, Arthur Kendy

Cover Art - Victor Atkins

Back Cover Photo - Hiro (Yasuhiro Wakabayashi)

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Hiro - Donna Mitchell Wearing a Dress by Ektor (Harper's Bazaar 1967)

Balenciaga, 'Four Sided Dress', 1967 - Ph. Hiro

“Emphasis of Black and Gold.” Vogue Italia, December 1982.

Cristiana Mucci photographed by Hiro.

Makeup by Nando Chiesa. Hair by Aldo Coppola.

Hiro (3 November 1930 - 15 August 2021)

"Van Cleef & Arpels Bracelet with Green Snake, New York, 1963" (1984, printed 2015).  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Hiro (3 November 1930 - 15 August 2021)

By the time Yasuhiro Wakabayashi came to New York in 1954, he’d already set his sights on working for either Richard Avedon or Irving Penn. 

Arriving from Japan, by way of China, “Hiro,” as he came to be known, first encountered fashion photography after World War II while working at an American hotel, where he used to wait for visitors to toss their magazines in the garbage so he could get a glimpse at the glossy images. 

After a few classes at the School of Modern Photography, in 1956, he achieved his dream of assisting Avedon. An introduction to Alexey Brodovitch, the esteemed art director of Harper’s Bazaar, soon followed. 

Seeing the originality of Hiro’s colorful, graphic aesthetic, Brodovitch hired him as a staff photographer in 1957, a post he kept for decades.

Kelly Stewart , New York, Negative 1994, print 2011. Hiro/The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Purchased with funds provided by the Photographs Council.

Black Evening Dress in Flight, New York. Negative 1963, print 1994. Hiro/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Cristóbal Balenciaga evening dress, black gazar, 1967. Photograph by Hiro Wakabayashi for Harper's Bazaar.

Foot Series #8 with Ant, New York, 1982" (1982, printed 2015). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Elsa Peretti gold bone cuff, taken in 1984. Credit: Hiro/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

"Harry Winston Necklace, New York, 1963" (1963, printed 1990). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Rolling Stones, 1976,  “Black and Blue” Album Cover Artwork by Hiro.