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Introduction

TRUNK ARCHIVE

TRUNK ARCHIVE is a boutique agency based in New York City that represents the archives of the world's leading fashion, celebrity, still life and landscape photographers. Every artist on their roster is acknowledged as being among the very best in his / her genre. To highlight the impressive diversity of images available at TRUNK ARCHIVE we have selected a group of amazing artists to feature in this launch collection.


Sheila Metzner

The photographs by Sheila Metzner belong to the classics of contemporary American photography. Her work can be found in some of the leading collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her style is characterised by a velvet looking surface with a delicate, textured appearance.

Bathed in a distinctive, gentle haze, the scenes appear timeless and retain a magical aura with picturesque colours. Metzner is one of the few photographers in the world who work with the unique French Fresson print, a complicated process involving gelatine oil pigments in five colours. As early as the seventies she travelled to Paris to learn the complicated chemical process first hand in the Fresson family business.

The photography of Sheila Metzner is neither nostalgic nor historical. It produces instead a unique atmosphere through gentle colour contours, whose picturesque soft focus creates the impression of an expensive fabric coating. Her works from the last four decades focus in particular on still-life images, landscapes, and fashion photography.

It is the elegant materiality of her flower pictures that is most reminiscent of Metzner’s legendary inspirations, photographs artists such as Edward Steichen or Edward Weston, and through which an aura of timeless beauty is created.

Christina Wendenburg

Bio

1939	Born in Brooklyn, New York, USA
1961	Pratt Institute, Visual Communications
	Art Director at Doyle Dane Bernbach Advertising Agency
	Freelance photographer for Valentino, Fendi, Victoria’s Secret, Levi’s, Ralph Lauren
	Lives and works in New York, USA

Awards

2008	Honored Stars of Design Award
1999	Pratt Institute Herschel Levit Award
1997	Art Director’s Hall of Fame
	Art Directors Club
1991-1992	13th Edition Bronze Award, Photojournalism, Photo Illustration, The New York Times, New York Society of Newspaper Design
	13th Edition Silver Award, Magazine Pages, The New York Times, New York Society of Newspaper Design
1987	Best Print Advertising Campaign Award, Fragrance Foundation

Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
International Center of Photography, New York, USA
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Polaroid Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
AGFA Corporation, Ridgefield, New Jersey, USA
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, USA

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2008	School of Visual Arts Museum, New York, USA
	Galerija Fotografija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006	John Stevenson Gallery, New York, USA
2002	Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2001	Acte II Gallery, Paris, France
	Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, California, USA
2000	Tibet House, New York, USA
	Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
	Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
	Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

Group Exhibitions

2012	Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker – UCCA/ Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2010	Women photographers, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Mailand, Italy
2008	Traumfrauen. 50 Starfotografen zeigen ihre Vision von Schönheit - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
2006	American Icons – Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
	Year Of Tibet Portfolio, Fahey/ Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2005	Invito al Collezionismo, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Mailand, Italy
	From the Source, Fashion Photographs – Jane Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002	Buds, Blooms & Blossoms, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, USA
	New York, New York – The City In Photographs, Staley-Wise Gallery, New York, USA
1997	Fashion Photography, International Center of Photography, New York, USA