Vladimír Fyman was born in Roztoky, where his father František ran a photography studio. The Fyman family immigrated to Roztok in 1939 from Slovak Vyšné Hág, after they had to leave the newly formed Slovak state. In his youth, Vladimír decided to devote himself to photography and studied at the State School of Graphics in Prague, where his teachers were the avant-garde photographers Jaromír Funke and Josef Ehm. After school, he started working in his father's studio, later moving to the photography workshop of the State Monuments Administration, where he specialized in the documentation of historical architecture.
In 1953, Father František's studio was nationalized and Vladimír started working at the Memorial Institute. From there, he later moved to the National Gallery in Prague, where he worked as the head of the photography workshop until his retirement. In the gallery, Fyman focused primarily on photographing works of art, contributed to twenty catalogs of A. Mucha exhibitions at home and abroad and published in editions of the Odeon, Municipal Monuments and monographs of the National Gallery. Among the artists whose works he photographed for catalogs were, for example, Zdeněk Lhoták, Adolf Born, Jiří Anderle, Jan Smetana, Zdeněk Hajný and others.
Vladimír Fyman was also a long-time member of the Union of Visual Artists and his interest in photography included landscapes, architecture, visual arts and monuments. He died in 2014 in Roztoky, where he lived until the end of his life.