Sheila Metzner: From Life-Quality Guarantee

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Fashion and portrait photographer Sheila Metznerpresents her life’s work, including her intimate family portraits in1960s Woodstock, fashion editorials, nudes, and sacred landscapes.

This exquisite volume presents morethan 300 photographs accompanied by the groundbreaking artist’senchanting stories of the inspirations behind her critically acclaimedwork. The first female art director at Doyle Dane Bernbach advertisingagency in the 1960s, Sheila Metzner became a photographer while raisingfive children. In 1978, one of Metzner’s portraits became the hit of acontroversial exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art; gallery shows andassignments from Alexander Liberman at Vogue soonfollowed. At a time when Avedon, Penn, and Piel commandeered its pages,Metzner became the first female photographer to receive steady workfrom Vogue. Always pushing artisticboundaries, Metzner’s distinctive photographic aesthetic soon positionedher as a contemporary master not only in fashion photography but alsoin fine art, portraiture, still life, and landscape.

With memoir-like vignettes that accompany herphotos, this book is a deeply personal look at the artist’s career as apeer to fashion and film luminaries such as Diane Arbus and RichardAvedon. Featuring her renowned fashion editorials and acclaimed fine-artphotography, this volume will appeal to both fashion and photographylovers.