About This Image

Signed, initialed, and editioned (AP 17/24) in pencil. Unmounted; paper size 16 x13 inches.

In the collection of the Harn Museum of Art.

Taken on assignment for Vogue France, the image commemorates Man Ray's work. Metzner told Blind Magazine in 2022: "I was always inspired by Man Ray because he was truly an artist as a photographer--and a really interesting person. And the people that he photographed were as interesting as he was."

Born in 1939, the celebrated American photographer Sheila Metzner has amassed a portfolio that encompasses fashion and advertising shoots, portraiture, still lifes, and landscapes. “Photography...in its most basic form is magic...This image, caught in my trap, my box of darkness, can live. It is eternal, immortal,” she has said.

In 1978, one of her early photographs was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s groundbreaking exhibition, “Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960.” This launched a career that has taken her around the world—on assignments for clients like Valentino and Shiseido—and for her own projects focused on the details of the human form and natural and urban scenes.

Developed with the labor-intensive, time-honored Fresson and platinum printing processes, Metzner’s prints have a softness and depth aptly suited to her sensitively framed subject matter.

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