14 Facts About Betty Hahn

Betty Hahn completed both her BFA and MFA at Indiana University Bloomington.

Betty Hahn is well-recognized due to her experimentation with experimental photographic methods which incorporate different forms of media.

Betty Hahn was born on October 11,1940, in Chicago, Illinois where she grew up.

At the age of ten, Betty Hahn was given her first camera by an aunt.

Once she graduated, Betty Hahn moved to Rochester where she taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology until 1975.

Betty Hahn then relocated to Albuquerque where she was professor at University of New Mexico until her retirement in 1997.

Betty Hahn is best known for her explorations of alternative processes in photography, using both older methods of darkroom developing such as gum-bichromate and cyanotypes, with other art mediums, including hand-painting and even embroidery.

Betty Hahn is noted as one of the first photographers to successfully integrate such a variety of art mediums.

Betty Hahn encourages the viewer to think more deeply through not only the use of different physical processes in her artwork, but through the multiplicity of meanings in her photographs.

Once she started experimenting with the gum-bichromate process, Betty Hahn started stitching into her photographs.

In highlighting the ordinary in her work, Betty Hahn elevates and revives that which has been lost in the practice of daily life.

Betty Hahn's art has been exhibited throughout the country and worldwide featured in museums highlighting historical processes in Baltimore, Maryland and nature photography exhibitions in Osaka, Japan.

Betty Hahn's work has been displayed at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and Art History, Phoenix Art Museum, and the George Eastman House.

Betty Hahn's work is held in private collectors, galleries, and in permanent museum collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Center for Creative Photography and the Museum of Modern Art.