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Sheila Metzner recalls her first commission from a serious Latest York magazine that catapulted her profession. It was within the early ’80s when she received a call from Lloyd Ziff, the creative art director at Vanity Fair, the magazine recently resurrected by Condé Nast. He had seen Metzner’s name on a listing of photographers the previous creative art director, Bea Feitler, desired to work with. However the 44-year-old Feitler had passed away before acting on her wish list. “Lloyd called and said, ‘Can I see your portfolio?’” Metzner says. “But I never had a portfolio because for years I had been making photos by myself and numerous them were on my pool table. So I told him he would have to return to...