Tono Stano

Tono Stano (born 24 March 1960) is a Slovakia-born art photographer living and working in Prague, Czech Republic.

Life and work Stano was born in Zlaté Moravce, now Slovakia.

He attended the secondary school of applied arts in Bratislava from 1975 to 1979, and then, from 1980 to 1986, the FAMU in Prague (School of Film, Photography, and Television). Still during their studies, he and his fellow students (e.g. Miro Svolik) at FAMU developed a new style of staged photography, full of expressive movements and metaphor, partly influenced by performance art.

Stano is mainly known for his black-and-white photographs of the female body. Several of his photographs have been used for the cover of photography books. The picture "Sense", for example, appeared on the cover of the photography book The Body by William A. Ewing.

In 2001 he designed the statuette for the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, for which he is a photographer.

Solo exhibitions

Fotochema, Prague, 1986 Galerie G4, Cheb, 1989 Le Pont Neuf, Paris, 1990 Galerie U Recickych, Prague, 1992 Palac Metro, Prague, 1992 Narodni technicke Museum, Prague 1995 Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1996 Dom kultury, Bratislava, 1996 Schoren, St. Gallen, Switzerland 2000 Prazsky dum fotografie, Prague, 2001 Slovak Institute and Czech Centre, Berlin, 2002 Galerie Baudelaire, Antwerp, 2004 Institut Français, Budapest, 2004

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