Virna Haffer (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Trade Paperback; staplebound; 32 pages. No statement of later printing on copyright page. Slight wear to corners and edges; slight browning and dustsoiling to covers; small sticker stains on front upper right corner; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Good to Very Good condition. No Signature. …

Stiff printed wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4to. Pp. 243. Frontis. black & white photograph by Virna Haffer. Foreword by Stephanie A. Stebich of the Tacoma Art Museum. Illustrated throughout with reproductions of Virna Haffer's photography. Signed by David F. Martin on title-page. Bound in stiff printed wrappers with black & white photographs by Haffer on covers. Rubbed corners; minor marks to covers. An inexplicably scarce catalog-monograph featuring the deep research of Pacific Northwest Art-authority David Martin. Virna Haffer (illustrator). …

hardcover. 8vo. 128pp. Second impression, 1971. from front flap: "Photograms are not photography in the conventional sense of that word, but a creative use of photographic materials without using a camera Their potential in the field of design and the graphic arts is steadily expanding. In this book thet author explains in the simplest possible terms how, with very little equipment (a dark room, some photographic paper, two simple chemical solutions, and whatever you want to "photogram") and limited photographic experience, the reader can exploit the endless possibilities of the medium." #04592. Very Good: Book VG/VG+, clean, square, tight, unmarked Very Good: DJ VG with age toning, small closed tear, NOT clipped.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. ISBN Trade Paperback. Staple-bound, 8x8 inches, 32 pages. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with minor rubs to edges and corners of covers, minor edgewear, slight browning on cover edges. No statement of later printing on copyright page.

Condition: Good. Second impression, 1971. Binding is unblemished, text block is clean, boards straight, without highlights or markings. Mild rubbing/chipping to dust wrapper edges. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Condition: New. One of the most innovative Northwest artists of her time, Virna Haffer was an internationally recognized and respected Tacoma photographer who has slipped from both regional and national art history books. In a career spanning more than six decades, Haffer found success as a photographer, printmaker, painter, musician, sculptor, and published writer, though she is primarily known as a photographer. Self-taught, she began her ambitious career in the early 1920s, both running a successful portrait studio and also exhibiting her unique artistic images around the world. Margaret E. Bullock, curator of collections and special exhibitions at Tacoma Art Museum, art historian Christina S. Henderson, and independent curator and gallery owner David F. Martin examined more than 30,000 of Virna Haffer's photographic negatives, prints, and woodblocks at the Washington State Historical Society and Tacoma Public Library's Special Collections were examined to create this book.…