Woodcuts 1964 and 1965.

Woodcut prints made from white pine and discarded drawing boards. The images are from family snapshots, other found photographs, and one nineteenth-century daguerreotype and one tintype. 

Commemoratives

Gelatin silver photographs from 35mm negatives, commercially printed and perforated. Each image is reduced to approximately the size of a postage stamp, with fifty examples per sheet of 8x10 paper. The entire sheet is perforated much like a commercial sheet of stamps. These photographs depict or commemorate vaious events inthe artist's life during 1971.
 

Gum bichromate prints from 35mm and 120 roll film negatives that were enlarged onto graphic arts film and then contact printed. Some prints have applied watercolor and/or fluorescent spray paint. Most are unique pieces, but some images have been printed more than once.

Gum Bichromates on Fabric with Stitching

 
Gum Bichromates prints from 35mm and 120 roll film negatives, enlarged onto graphic arts film and then contact printed. All works are embellished with different colored embroidery thread. Subjects for these prints include portraits, landscapes, gardens, architecture, television images, fruits, and vegetables.

Miniature Gum Bichromate 1971

(2”x2”) This bichromate contact print from black and white negative. Each image shows a nude female torso holding a fruit or vegetable, and the color of each print corresponds with the color of the fruit or vegetable held by the figure. (Printed on Rives paper. 16 photographs in series, edition not to exceed 10). 

This project includes cyanotypes, Van Dykes, gum bichromates, duotones, photo silkscreens, and lithographs made from a Hollywood still photograph of the Lone Ranger and Tonto sitting on horses in a desert landscape in Tuscon, Arizona. This image is punctuated by a saguaro cactus that rises up behind the Long Ranger. Betty Hahn found this photograph in a stationery store and has used it throughout all of her Lone Ranger projects. Applied materials for the unique works on paper and fabric include watercolor, graphite, pastels, felt-tip marker, silver paper stars, and Sanka instant coffee. All works, including editions, are 22"x18" unless noted otherwise.

Cyanotypes, Van Dykes, monotypes, lithographs, photo silkscreens, and color photographs of still life flower arrangements made from 4 X 5 negatives with applied pastels, acrylic paints, watercolors, felt tip markers, craypas, and metallic watercolors.

Monotypes with cyanotypes, Van Dykes, photolithographs, chine colle, and pencil. This group of prints evolved from the Lone Ranger and Landscape with Cloud Variations series and was inspired by grade B Hollywood westerns.

"Shinjuku" 1984, 11 photographs in the series, all are 17 X 24. Ektacolor photographs from 35 mm black and white and color negatives with white text composed by the artist. These photographs were made on two street corners in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. This series was inspired by the transition of black and white to color imagery in the film version of The Wizard of Oz.

"Collect from Berlin" 1991 
a sequence of four photolithographs, 27 X 36 each. These photolithographs were inspired by grade B film noir movies. They are printed by Rodney Hamon, Black and Blue Press, Albuquerque, New Mexico.    

Ehrlichman Surveillance 1982

These photographs were made at the Shidoni sculpture gardens and foundry in Tesuque, New Mexico, during a dinner held in honor of a group of visiting cultural attaches from the People’s Republic of China. The white arrows in the photographs identify John Ehrlichman, former assistant of domestic affairs for Richard M. Nixon, and convicted felon who served eighteen months at the Federal Prison Camp at Safford Arizona, for his role in the Watergate affair. 

Crime in the Home 1982

There are ten photographs in this series, eight of household domestic items destroyed by the artist’s Borzoi, Trotsky, when he was a puppy; one police sketch of the suspect and an image of the suspect’s paws with a scale ruler.

Circumstances of Awakening: Berlin 1990

Ektacolor photographs from 35mm black and white and color negatives. These are color and gelatin silver filmstrip-like images that include a man asleep in a Berlin hotel room, a greenhouse, and a field of poppies.

Arrival or Departure (After Hitchcock) 1987

This series of gelatin silver photographs made from  35mm negatives shows sequential images of a man, Ira Jaffe, carrying luggage, and walking down the platform of the train station in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was based on the opening scenes of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1964 film “Marnie”.

"Past Imperfect" iPhone GS4 photographs with combined apps. Betty Hahn traveled to Cuba for eight days in 2013 with a People to People supervised group of tourists from Indiana. All prints are 12" X 16", 2013.