Virna Haffer is simply one of the most interesting people ever to make photographic art in the Pacific Northwest. Among other things, she photographed: a woman named Mina Quevli clutching a long lit cigarette, shadowed eyes cast downward, lips dark, hair slicked back (circa 1930, when Quevli was known to travel with an entourage including a wolfhound, monkeys, and pretty boys); a naked man cavorting in nature, white spirals covering his skin; a greased-up naked woman casting a giant shadow on a blank wall; herself, in a convex mirror, looking like a demented midget queen; her third husband, Norman, passed out drunk; Norman's bent elbow, multiplied into a butterfly-like psychedelic pattern; a skyful of lips, floating; the town of Juneau, Alaska, in the middle of the night with one corner lit up, like Edward Hopper's New York; the raging Tacoma Hotel fire of 1935; the... (http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2011/08/04/a-skyful-of-lips-and-other-anomalies-in-virna-haffers-photography