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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. Looking at Metzner’s photographs is a captivating experience. Innocent, sensual, and sexual, each photo, regardless of subject, exhibits and elicits deep emotion. It is nearly impossible to just glance at Metzner’s photos; they beg to be studied. She says, “Photography in its most basic form is magic…This image, caught in my trap, my box of darkness, can live. It is eternal, immortal. The child in the image will not age as the living child will.”
Sheila Schwartz was born in 1939 to an orthodox Jewish family in a poor section of Brooklyn. While attending the School of Industrial Art in Manhattan (now the High School of Art and Design), she was awarded the Mayor Robert F. Wagner scholarship to the college of her choice. She chose Pratt Institute, where she majored in visual communication. Her fondness for painting and sculpture also led her to study with abstract artists Jack Tworkov and James Brooks.
After graduating in 1961, Sheila worked as an assistant to Lou Dorfsman at CBS Network Advertising. Five years later, she was hired by the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency as its first female art director, and in 1968 she met and married director, creative director, and painter Jeffrey Metzner. While pregnant with their first child, she was riding in a cab with her mentor and friend, photographer Aaron Rose, discussing whether or not to give up her career in advertising. “He said, ‘You should be a photographer. You live like an artist. You have a good eye, you’d be good at it.’ ”
Metzner started taking pictures, amassing them slowly over the next 13 years, while raising her and Jeffrey’s five children—Raven, Bega, Ruby, Stella and Louie. Jeffrey’s two daughters from a previous marriage, Evyan and Alison, were also a regular part of the family. “When they were really small, I’d be with them during the day, photographing and printing at night. At eight or nine in the evening, when they were all asleep, I’d take a shower to wake up and put on high heels and lipstick, which I wore then, to give me the feeling of being ready to work.” She continues, “My children never interfered. When I couldn’t travel because of them, I would find a place in upstate New York and call it Antarctica or Egypt. I found microcosms.”
Nine years later, Metzner had accumulated a box of 22 pictures. One of them, a black-and-white photograph titled “Evyan, Kinderhook Creek,” caught the eye of John Szarkowski at the Museum of Modern Art, which he included in his famous and controversial exhibition “Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960.” The New York Times art critic Hilton Kramer loved the picture and soon it became the dark-horse hit of the exhibition. Later that year, Metzner’s first solo show at the Daniel Wolf Gallery in New York drew record crowds.
Metzner was now ready to work in color, but not just conventional color. Of her subjects, she once said, “If I use a rose, I want it to be the essential rose—the rose Beauty brought to her father from the Beast’s garden.” Now she aspired to an essential kind of color. “I wanted something that would last. I was looking for Fresson even though I didn’t know they existed.”
The Fresson family works outside of Paris and specializes in a labor-intensive four-color “process de charbon” method, which they invented in 1895. Some prints can go up to seven colors, and are pigment prints, the only true archival color print. Metzner is one of just ten American photographers with whom they are willing to work. Fresson prints are the perfect complement to Metzner’s style—soft, sensuous, and grainy, the prints resemble paintings, with a finish which Metzner describes as “a glaze on fine porcelain. The moment I saw the neutral gray,” she adds, “I knew it was perfect.”
In 1980 Metzner showed her Fresson color prints at her second solo exhibition at the Daniel Wolf Gallery. This show led to commissioned editorial work for such magazines as Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Rolling Stone. She secured an exclusive contract with Vogue for the next eight years. Metzner considers her portrait of actress Jeanne Moreau for Vanity Fair a turning point in her career. “It gave me a chance to show my work to a broader audience. I wasn’t just producing photographs for the art world.”
Of Sheila’s foray into fashion, critic Carol Squiers says, “At a time when fashion photography was caught between sterility and the snapshot, Metzner created a sumptuous vision that stimulated the entire field.”
Metzner also started doing commercial photography around this time. Her first client was Valentino, soon to be followed by Bloomingdale’s, Perry Ellis, Revlon, Shiseido, Saks Fifth Avenue, Paloma Picasso, Victoria’s Secret, Levi’s, Ralph Lauren, and fragrances for Chloe and Fendi (the Fendi campaign won a Fragrance Foundation Recognition Award). Her work also appeared on John Mellencamp CDs and international book jackets, and she began doing extensive travel and landscape photography.
Metzner has also worked on special assignment for films including Wild at Heart, Black Rain, Jennifer 8, and Bugsy. She has done photography for John Huston, Jessica Lange, Warren Beatty, Uma Thurman, Isabella Rosselini and many others. Metzner has directed television commercials, and produced and directed her own short film on the artist Man Ray. She’s also published two monographs: Objects of Desire, which won the American Society of Magazine Photographers Ansel Adams Award for Book Photography, and Sheila Metzner’s Color. Her work has been featured in numerous books on photography as well. Metzner’s first American museum exhibition, “Sheila Metzner 1991: A Retrospective” was held at ICP.
Metzner’s photographs are included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The International Center of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Chrysler Museum, Agfa and Polaroid Corporations, Saks Fifth Avenue, Avon, and the Norton as well as many personal collections.
Says Metzner, “When I started photographing, I was told that photography was dead and that I was really foolish to involve myself in it. I thought, ‘It can’t be dead, because I’m alive.’ Photography has made my life a most extraordinary one.”
- Creator:Sheila Metzner (1939, American)
- Creation Year:1987
- Dimensions:Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
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- Condition:needs to be reframed.
- Gallery Location:Surfside, FL
- Reference Number:Seller: 10451stDibs: LU38212174652
Sheila Metzner
Sheila Metzner (born 1939) is an American photographer. She was the first female photographer to collaborate with the Vogue magazine on an ongoing basis. Metzner lives in Brooklyn, New York. Metzner graduated from the High School of Art and Design and the Faculty of Visual Communications of the Pratt Institute. In the 1960s, she became the first woman to be promoted to art director by Doyle Dane Bernbach, an advertising agency. Thanks to this, she successfully collaborated with well-known photographers, including Richard Avedon, Melvin Sokolsky, Bob Richardson and Diane Arbus. Her first show in New York was called Friends & Family. She decided to show part of the images to the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, John Sarkovsky. In 1978, he bought one and included in MoMA exhibition Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960. A second exhibition – Photography (Spring 1981): Couches, Diamonds and Pie – took place there. After that, The New York Times and The Sunday Times published a photograph of Sheila's husband. In 2008 the School of Visual Arts presented the exhibition Time Line: Shelia Metzner at the Visual Arts Museum, New York.
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1990s Conceptual Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
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By Emily Cheng
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Emily Cheng (born in New York City, in 1953) is an American artist of Chinese ancestry. She is best known for large scale painting with a center focus often employing expansive circular images radiantly colored, radially composed.
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This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cub...
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Located in London, GB
Audrey Hepburn on the set of ‘Two for the Road’, 1966.
Audrey Hepburn Swims 1966
by Terry O’Neill
Hand SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 27/50
PAPER: C TYPE
FULLY FRAMED: 26.5 x 21.1 INCH
P...
Category
1960s Modern Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Alison Cain - Society Portrait in Purple Silk by Greek Columns
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Alison Cain - Society Portrait in Purple Silk by Greek Columns by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
Alison Cain is a ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
C Print, Color, Photographic Paper, Digital
Monaco Grand Prix, 1973 - Monaco Grand Prix Formula One Racer Francois Cevert
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Monaco Grand Prix, 1973 - Monaco Grand Prix Formula One Racer Francois Cevert by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
Mo...
Category
20th Century American Modern Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Dining al Fresco on Capri, 1980 - Bougainvillea and Geranium Flowers on Capri
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Dining al Fresco on Capri, 1980 - Bougainvillea and Geranium Flowers on Capri by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
E...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Lake Tahoe Couple, 1959 - Portrait of Romantic Couple in Swimming Pool at Tahoe
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Lake Tahoe Couple, 1959 - Portrait of Romantic Couple in Swimming Pool at Tahoe by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
Lake Tahoe Couple, 1959 is a beautiful Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type print from 20th Century photographer Slim Aarons.
Taken near Lake Tahoe, California. If you look carefully, you are able to see the words, "Nevada" and "California" spelled out in tiles on the swimming pool floor. This line actually marks the state boundary between Nevada and California. From 1959.
The world of Aarons’s photographs...
Category
20th Century Modern Nude Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Funk in Tuscany, 1969 - Fashion in Yellow Outfit with James Brown Record
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Funk in Tuscany, 1969 - Fashion in Yellow Outfit with James Brown Record by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Editio...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Digital, Color, C Print
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