The photographer Robert Vano is represented by Leica Gallery Prague.
1948 Born in Czechoslovakia
1967 Shortly after his graduation from High school he emigrated to the USA
1970 He started to work in New York as a makeup artist for fashion photographers (Horst P. Horst, Glaviano, Castel, etc.) and for magazines like Harpers Bazaar, Donna, Seventeen, Mademoiselle
1984 Started to work as a freelance photographer in New York, Paris, Milan
1990 Returned to Prague, Czechoslovakia
1996–2003 He worked as a creative director for the Czech edition of Elle
2004–2009 He worked as an art director of Czechoslovak Models
2009 He works as a freelance photographer in Prague, Czech Republic.
2010 He was awarded The European Trebbia prize for creative activity
2013 The Platinum Collection – selection, Marck Chagalls centre in Vitebsk, Belarus; Minsk, Gomel and Brest
2013 The Platinum Collection – selection, Gaudia, Prague
2013 The Platinum Collection – selection, Museum in Litoměřice
2013 The Platinum Collection – selection, Strakonice
2012 The Platinum Collection – selection, A House gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
2012 The Platinum Collection – selection, UJAK gallery, Prague
2012 The Platinum Collection – selection, Galerie 4, Cheb
2012 The Platinum Collection – selection, Festival of Photography Moravská Třebová
2012 The Platinum Collection – selection, Czech Center Budapest, Hungary
2012 The Platinum Collection – selection, Kryt Gallery, Klášterec nad Ohří
2011 The Platinum Collection – selection, Regional Museum, Šumperk
2011 The Platinum Collection – selection, Czech-German Club, Konstanz
2011 The Platinum Collection – selection, Town Prachatice
2010 The Platinum Collection – selection, Mimoň
2010 The Platinum Collection – selection, Museum of Prácheň, Písek
2010 The Platinum Collection – selection, Biennale Moscow
2010 The Platinum Collection – selection, Art Center Chagall, Ostrava
2009 The Platinum Collection, Gallery Mánes, Prague
2009 The Platinum Collection, Leica Gallery Prague, Prague
2008 Pictures, Gallery Librex, Ostrava
2007 Inventory, Ponrepo, Brno
2006 Portraits, Film Festival Olomouc
2006 Pictures, Cafe~Cafe, Prague
2005 Platinum Boys, Radost, Prague
2004 Pictures, Karlovy Vary Film Festival
1999 In Bed with Milan, Radost, Prague
1999 Inventory, Gallery Miro, Prague
1998 Inventory, Slovak Institute, Prague
1997 Intermezzo, Radost, Prague
1995 You and I, Radost, Prague
1994 Adršpach, Gallery in Celetna, Prague
1993 Boys and Roses, Radost, Prague
1992 Love You from Prague, Albatros, Prague
1991 Love You from Prague, Gallery M, Bratislava
1989 Nudes, Sagar Gallery, New York
1986 Boys, McCree Gallery, London
1985 Nudes, Krigier Gallery, Milan
1984 Nudes, Sagar Gallery, New York
2013 Prague Photo 2013, Kafkův dům, Prague
2011 Prague Photo 2011, Mánes, Prague
2008 Prague Photo 2008, Mánes, Prague
2006 Masters of Czech photography, Intercamera, Výstaviště, Prague
2002 Photography in Advertising, Messezentrum, Vídeň
2001 Advertising, Výstaviště Praha
1996 50 Years of Elle, Radost, Prague
1993 Czechoslovak Photography in Exile, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
1992 Czechoslovak Photography in Exile, Mánes Gallery, Prague
2010 Robert Vano, Artfoto
2010 Cook book for boys, Computer Press
2009 The Platinum Collection, Karmasek
2008 Sometimes paradise, XYZ
1992 Boys and Roses, Scarabeus
1991 Love You from Prague, Radost
The Platinum Collection contains two hundred original photographs printed by means of a special procedure. These have been manufactured by hand by Robert Vano as unrepeatable originals for gallery purposes. For maximum longevity and artistic effect, he uses special cotton paper without cellulose, manufacturing them through an extraordinarily costly procedure based on platinum and palladium. Negatives prepared in a special way in advance are copied onto this emulsion by means of a contact method so that maximum details and the largest spectrum of half-tones could be preserved.