- Tono Stano
Tono Stano is an art
photographer living and working inPrague ,Czech Republic . He was born on 24 March1960 inZlaté Moravce ,Slovakia .Tono Stano attended the secondary school of applied arts in
Bratislava in 1975-79, and then, from 1980-86, the FAMU in Prague (School of Film, Photography, and Television). Still during their studies, he and his fellow students (Miro Svolik ) at FAMU developed a new style of staged photography, full of expressive movements and metaphor, partly influenced byperformance art [Magdalena Jurikova: "Tono Stano", FotoTorst, 2005] . Tono Stano is mainly known for his black and white photographs of the female body. Several of his photographs have been on the cover of photography books. The picture "Sense", e.g., appeared on the cover of the landmark photography book "The Body" by William A. Ewing [William A. Ewing: "The Body", Thames & Hudson, 1994] .Exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions include:
*Institut Français,Budapest , 2004
*Galerie Baudelaire,Antwerp , 2004
*Waldburger Gallery, Slovak Institute and Czech Centre,Berlin , 2002
*Photo Los Angeles, booth of Waldburger Gallery/photofront, 2001
*Prazsky dum fotografie, Prague, 2001
*Schoren, St. Gallen,Switzerland 2000
*Dom kultury, Bratislava, 1996
*Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 1996
*Narodni technicke Museum, Prague 1995
*Palac Metro, Prague, 1992
*Galerie U Recickych, Prague, 1992
*Le Pont Neuf,Paris , 1990
*Galerie G4,Cheb , 1989
*Fotochema, Prague, 1986Bibliography
*cite book
last = FotoTorst
title = Tono Stano
publisher = Text by Magdalena Jurikova
date = 2005
isbn = 80-7215-247-5*cite book
last = Birgus
first = Vladimir
authorlink = Vladimir Birgus
title = Czech Photography of the 90ies
publisher = Kant
date = 1999
isbn = 8086217000*cite book
last = Stano
first = Tono
title = Praha
publisher = Posam
date = 1996Notes
External links
* [http://www.amazon.com/Tono-Stano-Fototorst-Magdalena-Jurikova/dp/8072152475 Photography book "Tono Stano" by FotoTorst]
* [http://www.antiqbook.co.uk/boox/pbi/22300.shtml Photography book "Praha" by Tono Stano]
* [http://www.amazon.com/Body-Photographs-Human-Form/dp/0811807622 Photography book "The Body" by William A. Ewing]
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