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Metzner, Sheila : Sheila Metzner: Color

Twin Palms Publishing, Altadena, CA, 1991

ISBN 0944092152

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 172 pages. Retrospective collection of color photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 10000 copies. A limited number of copies were signed by the photographer under the auspices of the publisher. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Sheila Metzner and Jack Woody: Oversize-volume format. Green cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and Afterword by Sheila Metzner. Acknowledgements, List of Solo and Group Exhibitions, Permanent Public Collections, Books, and Articles appended at the end, one of the best reference-summaries to Metzner's brilliant career thus far. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Singapore to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In matching green, mustard, and red abstract-design DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Sheila Metzner's "Color". More of the photographer's diaphanous color photography. The second volume of the trilogy that begins with "Objects of Desire" (1986) and ends with "Form And Fashion" (2001). Includes work Metzner has done to explore her ideas about color: She uses it not so much as a formal element, but instead to convey the sensuous atmosphere and texture of her images (just as a composer uses timbre, also called "tonal color" in music). Her commissioned work, for now-legendary advertising campaigns (such as the award-winning "Fendi Uomo" campaign) is also here, and in the same textured vein. Her subjects cover a wide range: Landscape, still life, male and female portraits, and in many instances, seamless fusions of these various genres. "A retrospective look at Sheila Metzner's fifteen-year career in photography (1976-1991), from her early photographic prints of tabletop still lifes, printed and sometimes hand-painted by the artist to her masterful fashion work and southwest landscapes. The artist's original, brilliantly colored Fresson prints are reproduced in this elegant volume for a definitive look at her work" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Sheila Metzner collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated in black ink-pen on the title page by the photographer: "Sheila Metzner Santa Fe 2003". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and dated copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Sheila Metzner did NOT sign most copeis of the Limited Edition. Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 76 color plates. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SHEILA METZNER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0944092152.

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