Max Yavno

From 1945 to 1985, Yavno worked as a freelance landscape, commercial, and documentary photographer for magazines in California. Photographic Artists & Innovators indicates that, from 1954 to 1974, Yavno operated a commercial photographic studio in Los Angeles, California. Contemporary Photographers (1988) and Auer, Encyclopédie des Photographes (1985) give the location of Yavno's photographic studio as San Francisco, California. From 1972 to 1975, Yavno studied cinematography at the University of California, Los Angeles (ULAN).