A Turbulent Lens: The Photographic Art of Virna Haffer Contributor(s): Bullock, Margaret E. (Author), Henderson, Christina S. (Author), Martin, David F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0924335327 ISBN-13: 9780924335327 Publisher: University of Washington Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Photography | Individual Photographers - Artists' Books - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General |
Dewey: 779 |
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 8" W x 9.97" (1.31 lbs) 144 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |