ROBERT VANO

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

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.