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Sheila Metzner's works at the Getty Center show her assignments for fashion magazines and designers that included Ralph Lauren, Valentino and Chanel.

David Zwirner Gallery in New York is restaging the photographer’s 1972 retrospective.

In her book, Briar Levit profiles the unsung women that have worked in and helped develop visual communications throughout history.

“I became a photographer because of ‘The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson,’ which was published when I was a student at the San Francisco Art Institute. I was studying painting. Maybe it was something about the word ‘world,’ as well as the pictures, that seduced me.”