"Flashlight Drawing" (Book 2 Image 44)
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"Flashlight Drawing" - photogram of a female with elongated nose and neck, full lips. (Virna Haffer Collection)
"Flashlight Drawing" (Book 2 Image 44)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Flashlight Drawing" - photogram of a female with elongated nose and neck, full lips. (Virna Haffer Collection)
"The Unknown" (Book 2 Image 55)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"The Unknown" - photogram. Probably created during the 1960s when Virna Haffer transitioned to camera-less photographic processes, particularly photograms. (Virna Haffer Collection)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Wheat" - Triticum (aestivum) - photogram of wheat with disc of light (sun) (Virna Haffer Collection)
"Male Beauty" (Chapter 3 Image 24)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1929. "Male Beauty" - soft focus male nude (back view) printed in sepia tone (Virna Haffer Collection)
"Poetry of the ages in one little bay" (Chapter 9 Image 98)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Poetry of the ages in one little bay" - trees reflected in water (Virna Haffer Collection)
Untitled (Chapter 15 Image 180)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
Brightly lit head of man with deep dark-set eyes and black background. Area below the sharply etched cheekbones is in darkness. Forehead and nose area highlighted. (Virna Haffer Collection)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1929. Digitized for use by Frye Museum/jg. This is entitled "Kwei Dun" and was a bromoil print which resembled a painting. This is believed to be a portrait of Chinese finger painter Kwei Dun who arrived in Seattle in 1924 to study art and architecture at the University of Washington. (Virna Haffer Collection) (Bullock: A Turbulent Lens, p. 107)
"Hard Rock Randall" (Album 1 Image 30)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1935. "'Hard Rock' Randall" - portrait of unsmiling, stubble-faced individual, circa 1935. This is believed to be Virna Haffer's third husband, Norman Randall. He would be extensively photographed by Haffer in the 1930s and '40s. This portrait of Randall would win first prize in a San Francisco competition sponsored by Camera Craft magazine in 1936. (A Turbulent Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer, p. 60-61)
"Newell Griffith and Shadow" (Album 2 Image 35)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Newell Griffith and Shadow" - undated portrait of man dressed in black, with well lit head floating in shadow.
"Gian Paola" (Album 2 Image 48)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1929. "Gian Paola" - portrait of person with brightly lit face and clenched hand emerge from a sea of black. This circa 1929 photograph was exhibited at the 1928 Seattle Camera Club (SCC) show. According to the book, "A Turbulet Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna haffer," this unusual work had "intense and disturbing qualities" quite at odds with other exhibition entries that stressed beauty. (A Turbulet Lens:The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer, p. 92)
"Bowl of Fruit" (Book 1 Image 34)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Bowl of Fruit" - photogram (Virna Haffer Collection)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Moss" - photogram (Virna Haffer Collection)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Bone Man" - photogram (Virna Haffer Collection)
"Male Beauty" (Chapter 3 Image 15)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1929. "Male Beauty" - soft focus portrait of naked male torso printed in sepia tone (Virna Haffer Collection)
"The Corny 1920's" (Chapter 3 Image 20)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"The Corny 1920's" - crouching female nude with shadow of man with whip (Virna Haffer Collection)
"With a Weird Spark" (Chapter 3 Image 30)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1934. This is believed to be Virna Haffer's "With a Weird Spark," an abstract composition of a man and woman and pattern in "sky" (sea shell), circa 1934. (Virna Haffer Collection) (Bullock: A Turbulent Lens, p. 132)
"Postcard Scenic" (Chapter 9 Image 94)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1968. "Postcard Scenic" - trees reflected in pond with floating leaves (Virna Haffer Collection)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
Portrait of fortune-teller. The dark haired woman has a weary smile on her face. She is holding a lit cigarette in one hand. Part of a deck of cards is scattered on the table before her. The photograph's background is dark and muted and the picture itself may be purposefully out of focus. (Virna Haffer Collection)