Sheila Metzner

Sheila Metzner
Born	1939 (age 85–86)[1] New York City, United States[2]
Alma mater	Pratt Institute
Spouse	Jeffrey Metzner
Children	5

Sheila Metzner (born 1939) is an American photographer. She was the first female photographer to collaborate with Vogue magazine on an ongoing basis.[3] Metzner lives in Brooklyn, New York.[4]

Early life

Metzner graduated from the High School of Art and Design[5] 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.[6]

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.[2][7]

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.[8][9]

In 2008, the School of Visual Arts presented the exhibition Time Line: Shelia Metzner at the Visual Arts Museum, New York.[10][11]

Collections

• Museum of Modern Art, New York[12]
• Metropolitan Museum of Art[13]
• Brooklyn Museum[14]
• Museum of Fine Arts Houston[15]
• Getty Museum[1]

Personal life

She was married to painter and art director Jeffrey Metzner for forty-four years. They had five children.[16]

References

1. "Sheila Metzner (American, born 1939) (Getty Museum)". The J. Paul Getty in Los Angeles.
2. Foerstner, Abigail. "THROUGH THE FANTASY VISION OF SHEILA METZNER'S PRISM". chicagotribune.com.
3. "Знакомимся с Шейлой Мецнер, первой женщиной-фотографом Vogue". www.vogue.ru (in Russian). June 3, 2019. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
4. "Фотограф Шейла Мецнер о русской классике, съемках в пустыне и авторском стиле". instyle.ru (in Russian). Retrieved October 21, 2019.
5. "Inside New York's famed high school for the creative arts". Huck Magazine. July 9, 2018.
6. "Магия Мецнер". www.lumiere.ru. Retrieved October 21, 2019.
7. Mettner, Martina (2001). In Their Mothers' Eyes: Women Photographers and Their Children. Edition Stemmle. p. 142. ISBN 9783908163527.
8. "Шейла Мецнер: фотограф, которая обессмертила моду". Журнал Grazia. June 13, 2019. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
9. "PHOTOGRAPHY VIEW". The New York Times. November 26, 1978. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
10. "School of Visual Time Line: Sheila Metzner Arts SVA | New York City | Fine Arts and Graphic Design School in New York City". sva.edu.
11. American Photo.
12. "Sheila Metzner MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
13. "Audrey – Vase and Fireplace". www.metmuseum.org.
14. "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
15. "Sheila Metzner". emuseum.mfha.org.
16. Germany, LFI-Leica Fotografie International, Hamburg. "SHEILA METZNER: THE FORTUNE OF BEAUTY | LFI Blog". LFI. Retrieved March 31, 2023.