title: Objects of Desire
author:  Sheila Metzner 
description: Dust jacket notes: "Hers is a photography that goes to passionate lengths in order to arrive at a still point, a kind of hush in which emotions themselves become objects of study." -Max Kozloff "Through the careful alchemy of her art, Sheila Metzner's subjects - women, children, graceful still-life objects, interiors - are transmuted into icons of beauty and emotion, objects fraught with poetic suggestion and mythic import. Sensual, poignant, evocative, her daring and original photographs have found a wide audience - they have been purchased by major museums and are published regularly in Vogue. Objects of Desire is a lavish, full-color portfolio of fifty-four superbly reproduced works. The painterly, almost Pre-Raphaelite look of these portraits and still lifes - a masked and costumed woman reclining on a sofa, gladiolas with the texture of crushed velvet curving from an Art Deco vase - is enhanced by the muted colors and grainy texture of her prints, achieved through the unique Fresson printing process. Sheila Metzner is one of the few modern photographers privileged to have her work printed by this largely secret turn-of-the-century method, perfected and still supervised by the Fresson family at their atelier in the outskirts of Paris. Sheila Metzner's photographs appear frequently in Vogue, Vanity Fair, and House &amp; Garden magazines. Her work has been shown in individual gallery exhibitions in New York and Zurich, as well as in numerous group shows in the United States and abroad. Her photographs have also been published in Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960, Nude: Photographs 1850-1980, and Counterparts: Form and Emotion in Photographs. Her work is represented in museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography in New York City, and in many corporate and private collections."
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  BRUSH WITH DESIRE
  
  
  Copyright © 2013 Jax Cassidy
  
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1492878131
  
  
  ISBN-10: 1492878138
  
  
    
  
  
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