Sheila Metzner (born 1939) is an American photographer. She was the first female photographer to collaborate with ''

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'' magazine on an ongoing basis. Metzner lives in

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, New York.

Early life

Metzner graduated from the

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and the Faculty of Visual Communications of the

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. In the 1960s, she became the first woman to be promoted to art director by

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, an advertising agency. Thanks to this, she successfully collaborated with well-known photographers, including

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, Bob Richardson and

Diane Arbus Diane Arbus (; ; March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971
by

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''. 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. In 2008, the

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presented the exhibition ''Time Line: Shelia Metzner'' at the Visual Arts Museum, New York.

Collections

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, New York *

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Personal life

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Metzner, Sheila 1939 births Living people Photographers from Brooklyn Pratt Institute alumni American women photographers Vogue (magazine) people 21st-century American women