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betty hahn

Born in Chicago, Illinois
Lives and works in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Studied at Indiana University (A.B., 1963, M.F.A., 1966)

Artist's Statement:
Still photographs from old Westerns may be nostalgic for some, but for me they offer the chance to deal with such life issues as conflict, prejudice, and violence without being "preachy."

Searching photo archives, I've come across photographs that show people talking to each other; gesturing, sometimes arguing, and I see these early move stills as carriers of the messages I want to insert-messages about the mishandling of the Western landscape and the environment, and the breakdown of interpersonal communications, i.e. "True Romance"

Betty Hahn's work was featured in the thirty-year retrospective exhibition Photography or Maybe Not at the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1995. Other recent exhibitions includes ones at the WItkin Gallery, New York, in 1994 and the Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia in 1993. Among the museum collections that contain Hahn's work are the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the National Gallery, Ottawa, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.


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