Author:  Making Photograms: The Creative Process of painting with Light,   Hastings House Publishers, 1969.

 

Raised in the Utopian Society of Home, Washington, Haffer was one of the most original  and innovative artists ever active in the Northwest.

A musician as well as a painter/printmaker, Haffer turned to photography in the mid-1920’s. She was a member of the prestigious Seattle Camera Club and became internationally famous for her photography especially in the field of Photograms.

 

Permanent Collections : Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA.; Seattle Art Museum; The World Book Encyclopedia of Photography, Vol. 9-10;  Tacoma Art Museum; Autry National Center, Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; The Wolfonian, Florida International University; The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah; Washington State Historical Museum of Art; Tacoma Public Library

 

                                                                  

 

  

Haffer is included in:

 

Women Pioneers in the First Hundred Years of Photography by Martin W. Sandler, 2002.

A History of Women Photographers by Naomi Rosenblum.

The Hidden World Of Virna Haffer,, Washington State Historical Society, 1985

Select Solo Exhibitions:

 

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960

Museum of Science & Industry, Los Angeles, 1964

Pacific Lutheran University, 1966

New York Camera Club, 1967

Museum of Contemporary Arts & Crafts, NYC, 1968

Expo 71, Chicago

University of Puget Sound, 1972

 

 

Group Exhibitions including:

 

Frederick & Nelson Salon, Seattle, 1924-25

Seattle Camera Club, 1929

First Annual National Photographic Salon for Women, Philadelphia, 1937

Seattle Photographic Society, Seattle Art Museum

Pittsburgh International Salons