A Turbulent Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer

Bullock, Margaret; Henderson, Christina; David F. Martin

ISBN 10: 0924335327 / ISBN 13: 9780924335327

Published by Tacoma Art Museum, 2011

About this Item

Tacoma Art Museum, 2011. Softcover As New condition throughout. 1st edition, 1st printing. Signed by David Martin on the title page.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1586120745468

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Turbulent Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer
• Publisher: Tacoma Art Museum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0924335327
• ISBN 13: 9780924335327
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: As New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Northwest History
  • Northwest Art
  • Northwest Author, Illustrator

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

David F. Martin is an independent arts researcher, writer, curator and historian who has documented the art history of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest since 1986 as well as Western New York State since 1981. He is the leading authority on early Washington State art and artist’s. Many of the artists he has chosen to focus on are women, Japanese and Chinese Americans, Gay & Lesbian and other minorities who had established national and international reputations during the period 1890-1960.