Sheila Metzner
{{Short description|American photographer (born 1939)}}
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Sheila Metzner (born 1939) is an American photographer. She was the first female photographer to collaborate with Vogue magazine on an ongoing basis.{{Cite web|url=https://www.vogue.ru/peopleparties/afisha/znakomimsya_s_shejloj_mecner_pervoj_zhenschinoj_fotografom_vogue/|title=Знакомимся с Шейлой Мецнер, первой женщиной-фотографом Vogue|website=www.vogue.ru|date=June 3, 2019 |language=ru|access-date=October 21, 2019}} Metzner lives in Brooklyn, New York.{{Cite web|url=https://instyle.ru/stars/interview/fotograf-sheyla-metsner-o-russkoy-klassike-semkakh-v-pustyne-i-avtorskom-stile-/|title=Фотограф Шейла Мецнер о русской классике, съемках в пустыне и авторском стиле|website=instyle.ru|language=ru|access-date=October 21, 2019}}
Early life
Metzner graduated from the High School of Art and Design{{cite web |title=Inside New York's famed high school for the creative arts |url=https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/photography-2/inside-new-yorks-famed-high-school-arts/ |website=Huck Magazine |date=July 9, 2018}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lumiere.ru/exhibitions/archive/id-251/|title=Магия Мецнер|website=www.lumiere.ru|access-date=October 21, 2019}}
Art career
Metzner's 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.{{cite web |last1=Foerstner |first1=Abigail |title=THROUGH THE FANTASY VISION OF SHEILA METZNER'S PRISM |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-01-09-8701030266-story.html |website=chicagotribune.com}}{{cite book |last1=Mettner |first1=Martina |title=In Their Mothers' Eyes: Women Photographers and Their Children |date=2001 |page=142 |publisher=Edition Stemmle |isbn=9783908163527 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HOFTAAAAMAAJ&q=sheila+metzner+windows+mirrors |language=en}}
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 Metzner's husband.{{Cite web|url=https://graziamagazine.ru/fashion/sheyla-mecner-fotograf-kotoraya-obessmertila-modu/|title=Шейла Мецнер: фотограф, которая обессмертила моду|date=June 13, 2019|website=Журнал Grazia|access-date=March 31, 2023}}{{cite web |title=PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/26/archives/photography-view-deliberately-oldfashioned.html |website=The New York Times |date=November 26, 1978 |access-date=March 31, 2023}}
In 2008, the School of Visual Arts presented the exhibition Time Line: Shelia Metzner at the Visual Arts Museum, New York.{{cite web |title=School of Visual Time Line: Sheila Metzner Arts SVA {{!}} New York City {{!}} Fine Arts and Graphic Design School in New York City |url=https://sva.edu/events/time-line-sheila-metzner |website=sva.edu |language=en}}{{cite book |title=American Photo |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nnZajRrLDEIC&dq=%22time+line%3ASheila+Metzner%22&pg=PA16 |language=en}}
Collections
- Museum of Modern Art, New York{{cite web |title=Sheila Metzner MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/artists/3950 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}
- Metropolitan Museum of Art{{cite web |title=Audrey – Vase and Fireplace |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/262837 |website=www.metmuseum.org}}
- Brooklyn Museum{{cite web |title=Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/12517/objects |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}
- Museum of Fine Arts Houston{{cite web |title=Sheila Metzner |url=https://emuseum.mfah.org/people/3300/sheila-metzner/objects |website=emuseum.mfha.org}}
- Getty Museum
Personal life
She was married to painter and art director Jeffrey Metzner for forty-four years. They had five children.{{cite web |last1=Germany |first1=LFI-Leica Fotografie International, Hamburg |title=SHEILA METZNER: THE FORTUNE OF BEAUTY {{!}} LFI Blog |url=https://lfi-online.de/ceemes/en/blog/the-fortune-of-beauty-2193.html |website=LFI |language=en |access-date=March 31, 2023}}
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Category:Photographers from Brooklyn
Category:Pratt Institute alumni
Category:American women photographers