"Self Portrait" (Album 2 Image 55)
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- 1929
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1929. "Self Portrait" - photograph of Virna Haffer reflected on curved surface, circa 1929.
"Self Portrait" (Album 2 Image 55)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1929. "Self Portrait" - photograph of Virna Haffer reflected on curved surface, circa 1929.
"'World Peace' (in political sense) a Rush" (Book 1 Image 37)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"'World Peace' (in political sense) a Rush" - photogram. Undated work with Japanese characters in bold print. (Virna Haffer Collection)
"Alley Doll and Chestnuts" (Book 1 Image 38)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Alley Doll and Chestnuts" - photogram. Figure appears to be a female nude in motion with head obscured by "chestnut." (Virna Haffer Collection)
"After Picasso" (Book 2 Image 61)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"After Picasso" - photogram (Virna Haffer Collection)
"Bird Dance" (Book 3 Image 100)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Bird Dance" - photogram (Virna Haffer Collection)
"Dedication" (Chapter 3 Image 25)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1934. "Dedication" - multiple exposures of nude man walking right to left across frame. According to the book "A Turbulent Lens," Haffer posed her husband, Norman Randall, in her studio with neutral backdrop and backlighting. A Graflex revolving magazine holder was used to take multiple exposures on several films and those resulting images were then sandwiched together. "Dedication" was used as the front and back inside covers for "Abundant Wild Oats," a book combining the poetry of Elizabeth ("Bettie") Sale and Haffer's photography. The book was never published although a prototype was made. (Virna Haffer Collection) (Bullock: A Turbulent Lens, p. 21, 126. 138, 117)
"Eleventh Street Bridge" (Chapter 13)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
This circa 1928 image depicts a shadowy figure walking on downtown Tacoma's Eleventh Street Bridge in heavy fog.
"Tilley-O" (Chapter 15 Image 178)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1928. "Tilley-O"- multiple exposures of a smiling woman in sepia toned and B & W. This circa 1928 photograph shows exposures of the same woman placed in a circular format with what may be a mound of thickish black hair in the center of the circle, thereby either hiding the woman's actual hair or was an enlargement of her hair. (Virna Haffer Collection) (Bullock: A Turbulent Lens, p. 40-picture only)
Untitled (Chapter 15 Image 179)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1935. Distorted head. This untitled work is of Newell Griffith, circa 1935. Mr. Griffith can also been seen in another of Haffer's pieces, series VH, image ALBUM 2-35. (Virna Haffer Collection)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Norman" - undated portrait of Norman Randall, with well lit face floating in black cowl. Norman Randall, Virna Haffer's third husband, was an engineer and artist. Haffer never remarried after his death in 1950. (A Turbulent Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer, p. 61- information on Mr. Randall)
"Kay with Silver Shawl" (Album 2 Image 53)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Kay with Silver Shawl" - undated portrait of person in shawl
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1960. This self portrait of photographer Virna Haffer was made circa 1960. Apparently she had greased her face with vasoline and then patted her face with paper. Her profile emerges from a black background with eyes seemingly shut tightly. (Virna Haffer Collection) (Bullock: A Turbulent Lens, p. 40)
"Bird on Cherry branch" (Book 1 Image 35)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Bird on Cherry branch" - Photogram of bird lit from back by disc of light (sun) (Virna Haffer Collection)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Mask" - photogram (Virna Haffer Collection)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Ancestors" - photogram of skeletal remains (Virna Haffer Collection)
"Fox Glove or Digitalis" (Book 5 Image 165)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Fox Glove or Digitalis" - photogram (Virna Haffer Collection)
"Nineteen Twenty Seven" (Chapter 3 Image 21)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
"Nineteen Twenty Seven" - female nude holding drape across front of her body. This is possibly a self-portrait of Virna Haffer. She wore her dark hair heavily banged and cut short during the late 1920s. (Virna Haffer Collection)
Part of Virna Haffer Collection
ca. 1929. Digitized for use by Frye Museum/jg. This painting-like piece is listed as "Kwei Dun" according to the book "A Turbulent Lens." A black and white version can be seen at series VH, image KWEI. The circa 1929 portrait was made of Chinese finger painter Kwei Dun who had traveled to Seattle to study art and architecture at the University of Washington. (Bullock: A Turbulent Lens, p. 107)