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The son of
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photo gallery owner G. Ray
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in 1938 and 1939. Yavno was in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945, after which he moved to San
Francisco and began specializing in urban-landscape photography. History professor Constance B. Schulz said of him:
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in the 1970s, when his introspective approach found a more appreciative audience. Funding from the
National Endowment for the Arts enabled him to travel to Egypt and Israel in 1979.
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selected twenty of Yavno's prints for the permanent collection at New York's
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Jack Jones, "Max Yavno, Who
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before becoming a social worker in 1935. He did photography for the
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at night. He attended the graduate school of political economics at
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Yavno's photographs accompanied text by newspaper columnists
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