Books and Articles About Betty Hahn’s Photography

Betty Hahn’s work has been discussed in monographs, museum catalogues, process manuals and art magazines. The selection below is partial and follows the archived list, arranged by type and then by date.

Monograph and catalogues

• Betty Hahn: Photography or Maybe Not, University of New Mexico Press, 1995, which accompanied her touring retrospective.
• Contemporary Spanish Photography, University of New Mexico Art Museum, 1987.
• Women of Photography, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1975.
• The Collectible Moment, the Norton Simon Museum catalogue edited by Gloria Williams Sander, 2006.
• Sole Mates, Cowboy Boots & Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, 2010.
• Visualizing Albuquerque: Art of Central New Mexico by Joseph Traugott, Albuquerque Museum, 2015.

Books on photographic history and technique

• Lee Witkin and Barbara London, The Photograph Collector’s Guide, New York Graphic Society, 1979.
• Andy Grundberg and Kathleen Gauss, Photography and Art, Abbeville, 1987.
• Anne Hoy, Fabrications, Abbeville, 1987.
• Lyle Rexer, Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde, Abrams, 2002, which includes her image Girl by Four Highways.
• Christopher James, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, second edition, Delmar Cengage Learning, 2009.
• Robert Hirsch, Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960, Focal Press, 2014.
• The Photographer’s Cookbook, George Eastman House and Aperture Foundation, 2016.
• Christina Z. Anderson, Gum Printing: A Step-by-Step Manual Highlighting Artists and Their Creative Practice, Focal Press and Routledge, 2016.
• Brian Arnold, Alternative Processes in Photography: Technique, History, and Creative Potential, Oxford University Press, 2017.

Magazines and journals

• ArtsCanada, December 1974 (volume 31), with a review by Joan Harrison.
• American Artist, February 1980, and several Art Week items dated 1979, 1980 and 1983.
• Art News, April 1981, which ran A. D. Coleman’s review titled with a question about crossing a photograph with a rock.
• Photo Vision, issue 14, Madrid, 1985; Modern American Printmaking, Hannover, 1985; American Photographer, August 1985.
• El Palacio, the Museum of New Mexico magazine: a winter-spring 1996 feature on her images of horses and the American West, which reproduced four pictures and a cover; a spring 2008 piece on Leap! showing Greenhouse Portrait and Pink Flowers, Perth, Australia; and a summer 2013 article on the horse as an icon.

Book covers and illustrations

Her photography appeared on the cover of Helen Dunmore’s Talking to the Dead (1996) and in Belinda Recio’s Blue (1996).

These sources are useful for anyone studying gum printing, cyanotype or the wider revival of handmade photography. To explore the pictures themselves, go to the portfolios page.