Sheila Metzner’s unique photographic style has
positioned her as a contemporary master in the worlds of fine art,
fashion, portraiture, still life and landscape photography. Born
in Brooklyn, in 1939, she attended Pratt Institute, where she majored
in Visual Communications, and was then hired by the Doyle Dane Bernbach
advertising agency as its first female art director. She took pictures
all the while, amassing them slowly over the next thirteen years,
while raising five children. One of these photographs was included
in a famous and controversial exhibition at the Museum of Modern
Art—Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960—and
became the dark horse hit of the exhibition. Gallery shows and commercial
clients soon followed. Metzner’s fine art photographs are
featured in numerous private and museum collections—among
others The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The International Center
of Photography, the Agfa and Polaroid Collections. She has published
four monographs: Objects of Desire, which won the Amerian Society
of Magazine Photographers Ansel Adams Award for Book Photography;
Sheila Metzner’s Color, Inherit the Earth (landscapes) and
Form and Fashion (images culled from twenty years of fine-art and
fashion work).
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