[4] Metzner graduated from the High School of Art and Design[5] and the Faculty of Visual Communications of the Pratt Institute.
In the 1960s, she became the first woman to be promoted to art director by Doyle Dane Bernbach, an advertising agency.
Thanks to this, she successfully collaborated with well-known photographers, including Richard Avedon, Melvin Sokolsky, Bob Richardson and Diane Arbus.
She decided to show part of the images to the director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, John Sarkovsky.
In 1978, he bought one and included in MoMA exhibition Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960.