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9781892041395

Sheila Metzner: Form and Fashion

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  • ISBN13:

    9781892041395

  • ISBN10:

    1892041391

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: Pub Group West
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Summary

In Sheila Metzner's photographs, beauty is truly more than skin-deep. She is known for creating rich and refined images for the fashion and television industries, and her textural surfaces and attention to aesthetics have made her work popular since the 1970s with clients as diverse as Fendi, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, and Victoria's Secret. Recasting history for her own demands, Metzner hovers between the pictorialist aesthetic of Alfred Stieglitz or Edward Steichen and the modernist edge of such photographers as Man Ray and Charles Sheeler. The end results, while paying homage, are uniquely Metzher's own and have left a major impression on the history of photography.

The transcendent quality of many of Metzner's photographs is enhanced by a printing process invented by the Fresson family in 1895 and still practiced in the family's atelier outside of Paris. Utilizing the Fresson process -- a painterly approach known as process de charbon that incorporates up to seven pigment colors -- many of the images presented here reveal a tonal range and color saturation tha

Table of Contents

Foreword 7(2)
Dan L. Monroe
Edward Sheriff Curtis: An Appreciation
9(20)
Clark Worswick
The Master Prints
29(154)
Afterword 183(2)
Thomas Haukaas
List of Plates 185

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