1980s Color Photography

Neo-Classical Pool Mrs T. Dennie Boardman and her children Samuel Jay and Sarah climbing the steps from the pool at the home of Boardman’s parents in Palm Beach, Florida, 1985. Sli...

Betty Hahn Title: Belladonna Date: 1980 Original Polaroid Large Format Print (Photo-Internal dye diffusion transfer) Location: Cambridge Massachusetts United States Dimensions: Image: 27 1/2 x 20 1/2 in. (69.9 x 52.1 cm), Paper: 29 1/4 x 21 1/2 in. (74.3 x 54.6 cm) This depicts a still life of a flower with an old botanical drawing print plate. From "Five Still Lifes" New York: Paradox Editions, Ltd., 1980. 5 original Polaroid color prints. Each hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 37/40 in ink in the margin. Each approximately 24 x 20in (image size). Each is on original as there are no negatives in this process. The photographers included: Robert Cumming, Robert Fichter, Betty Hahn, Victor Schrager and William Wegman. The photos were produced in the Polaroid Corporation’s 20×24 studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This is an internal Dye Diffusion print (large format) Polaroid print. These are exceedingly rare now. This format was used by many of the leading photographers of the second half of the 20th century, among them Peter Beard, Chuck Close, David Levinthal, Robert Frank, David Hockney, Lucas Samaras, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and, perhaps most significantly, Ansel Adams More recently Ellen Carey has created large abstract masterpieces using this format. Betty Hahn (born 1940) is an American photographer known for working in alternative and early photographic processes. She completed both her BFA (1963) and MFA (1966) at Indiana University. Initially, Hahn worked in other two-dimensional art mediums before focusing on photography in graduate school. She is well-recognized due to her experimentation with experimental photographic methods which incorporate different forms of media. By transcending traditional concepts of photography, Hahn challenges the viewer not only to assess the content of the image, but also to contemplate the photographic object itself. Betty Hahn was born on October 11, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois where she also grew up. At the age of ten, Hahn was given her first camera by an aunt. Hahn later on went to graduate from Scecina Memorial Catholic High School. Soon after, she enrolled at Indiana University with a full scholarship where she furthered her studies in Fine Arts, receiving both her BFA (1963) and her MFA (1966). Throughout her undergraduate years, she concentrated in drawing and painting; however, as she entered graduate study, she worked in photography. During this important developmental period, Hahn studied under one of the most well-known photography teachers of the time, Henry Holmes Smith, who encouraged Hahn's work in alternative processes. Once she graduated, Hahn moved to Rochester where she taught at the Rochester Institute of Technology until 1975. Hahn then relocated to Albuquerque where she was professor at University of New Mexico until her retirement in 1997. 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. She is noted as one of the first photographers to successfully integrate such a variety of art mediums. Hahn encourages the viewer to think more deeply through not only the use of different physical processes in her artwork, but also through the multiplicity of meanings in her photographs. In most of her work, Hahn integrates humor and irony as she explores the meanings generated by formal combinations. Some of her prints include the sprocket holes of the 35mm negative, which allude to its 35mm film origins: but by hand coloring with bright paints, she draws attention to the mixture of craft with industrial mediums. Once she started experimenting with the gum-bichromate process, Hahn started stitching into her photographs. Printing onto canvas and other fabrics allowed her to use thread to highlight certain aspects of the photograph. In combining her photographs with conventional practices, Hahn successfully intertwines formal and conceptual aspects. Not only does she speak to the mundane tasks of everyday life, but also about routine and normativity. In highlighting the ordinary in her work, Hahn elevates and revives that which has been lost in the practice of daily life. Embroidery references femininity, as Hahn underlines the feminist issue of the anonymity of women's handicraft. Her embroidery often emphasized flowers with its three-dimensionality, furthering the idea of femininity; she later on pursued this as a symbol and incorporated it in several of her other series. In her work, Hahn delivers a powerful feminist message in regards to women and embroidery. It is quite evident through time that women's labor is needlework, and that their labor is frequently undervalued as craft both when dissimilar and alike to men's work. In a time period where men overshadowed women in the traditional art, such as painting and sculpture, women oftentimes reverted to other mediums like textiles. It has been suggested that women's work, especially in embroidery, is of little value in the art field since it is considered a craft. Since "arts and crafts" are more often than not paired together, it is obvious they are in the same category; however, there is a clear distinction. For 300 years, women have been taught needlework through practice and tradition, and in inadvertently, promoted obedience and household effeminate behavior. As a result, instead of regarding stitching as an art, many viewed it as a thoughtless skill, lacking originality. On the contrary, however, it is far more than evident that the hand of woman is more than a mindless and conforming thing, it is one of sensitivity, thought, patience, perseverance, and strength. By incorporating embroidery and stitching, Betty Hahn pushes the audience to acknowledge the work of women not as craft or tradition, but as meticulous, creative and unique. Exhibitions The Division of Photographic History at the Smithsonian Institution exhibited Hahn's work in a group exhibit in the 1960s as a part of a developing series of displaying the works of women photographers. Afterwards her work was featured in multiple thematic exhibitions at the Smithsonian. Hahn's first solo show exhibiting her work was in 1973 at the Witkin Gallery in New York City. Thereafter, she received several grants from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1974, 1978, and 1983 to continue her work in explorative photography. Hahn's art has been exhibited throughout the country and worldwide featured in museums highlighting historical processes in Baltimore, Maryland (1972) and nature photography exhibitions in Osaka, Japan (1990). Her work has been displayed at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and Art History (2017), Phoenix Art Museum (2015), and the George Eastman House (2012, 2016). 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. Exhibitions 1996 – George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and film, Rochester, New York 1997 – A History of Women Photographers, Akron Art Museum 1997 – Eye of the Beholder, Photographs of the Avon Collection, International Center of Photography, Midtown, New York City 1998 – Passing Shots: A Travel Series, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1998 – The City Series, Taos, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA 1999 – Photography Or Maybe Not, a Betty Hahn traveling retrospective, Mikhailovsky Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia 2000 – 20/20 Twentieth Century Photographic Acquisitions by 20 leading patrons, Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts 2000 – Photography Or Maybe Not, a Betty Hahn traveling retrospective, Santa Fe de Granada, Spain 2001 – In the Eyes of the Beholder: Ten Photographers View Albuquerque, The University of New Mexico Hospital, Albuquerque, NM 2002 – Sun Works Contemporary Alternative Photography, The Art Institute of Boston 2002 – Flowers from the Permanent Collection, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2004 – 30th Anniversary Permanent Collection Exhibition, New Mexico State, University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico 2005 – New Mexico State University Art Gallery, Las Cruces, New Mexico 2005 – Ace in the Hole, the legacy of Peter Walch, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 2006 – The collectible moment, Norton Simon museum, Pasadena, California 2006 – The Social Lens, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia 2007 – Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography, A Traveling 2007 – Exhibition, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York 2008 – Flower Power: a Subversive Botanical, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM 2008 – Bernalillo County Arts Board Gallery, One Civic Plaza NW, Albuquerque, NM 2008 – Giving Shelter 516 Arts Albuquerque, NM (A Sister Exhibition to the Cradle Project) 2008 – Betty Hahn, Joyce Neimanas, and Judith Golden, Harwood Art Center Albuquerque, NM 2009 – Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe, Palace of the Governors, The New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe, 2009 – Altered Land: Photography in the 1970s, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 2010 – Sole Mates Cowboy Boots & Art, New Mexico Museum of Art 2010 – Rock Scissors Paper, Anderson Contemporary Arts, Albuquerque, NM 2010 – Recollection 2010, Works from the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, The Central Library, Vida Ellison Gallery, 2012 – 60 From the 60's (an exhibit of influential photos from the 1960s) George Eastman House, Rochester, New York 2012 – Albuquerque Now-Fall and Albuquerque Now-Winter, The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, 2013 – It's About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico, The New Mexico Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM 2014 – Alternative Lineage – Honoring Betty Hahn; 5 Decades of Mentoring 2014 – Alternative Photographic Processes, Center for Photographic Art Carmel, California 2014 – Alternative Lineage, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 2014 – Transformational Imagemaking, Handmade Photography Since 1960 2014 – An Exhibition Curated by Robert Hirsch, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2014 – Museum Project, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, California 2014 – American Heritage Center and Art Museum, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 2014 – Hubbard Museum of the American West, Ruidoso, New Mexico 2015 - One-Of-A-Kind, unique photographic objects from the Center of Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2015 – Unconfined – Empowering Women Through Art, African American Performing Arts Center, New Mexico Expo, 2015 – Visualizing Albuquerque: Art of Central New Mexico, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM 2015 – Healing ... For the Time Being, A mixed media exhibition in conjunction with On the Map: Albuquerque Art and Design, Jonathan Abrams MD 2015 – The AIPAD Photography Show, Represented by Joseph Bellows Gallery, New York, New York 2016 – Transformational Imagemaking, traveling exhibition March-16- April 16; Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. 2016 – Fall-Rochester Institute of Technology, Bevier Gallery, Rochester, NY 2016 – 60 from the 60's: Selections from the George Eastman Museum, At the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York (The featured artists included were Harry Callahan, Benedict J. Fernandez, Hollis Frampton...

Slim Aarons Porto Ercole Harbour 1980 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. Yachts moored to a pontoon in Port...

A marquee for an Art Deco Movie theater in Denton, Texas is photographed with meticulous precision by street photographer Mitchell Funk. Funk's approach...

Slim Aarons Pool At Porto Rotondo 1982 C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. A sw...

Pamela Anderson Photo by Markus Klinko Limited Estate Edition C Print Produced from the original transparency Certificate of authenticity supplied Paper size 20×24 inches/ 51 x ...

Kenneth Snelson (American, 1927-2016). Photograph depicting a panorama of the Seine river and bridges in Paris, France Hand signed, dated 1985, numbe...

Savannah Sweep by Alain Le Garsmeur A woman sweeping the pavement outside her house in downtown Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983. Paper size 24 x 20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Printed in 2022...

Savannah Collectables by Alain Le Garsmeur An African American man pauses on a bench outside a shop in downtown Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983. Paper siz...

Walk On By by Alain Le Garsmeur A Cape Verde immigrant woman carrying a wash basket on her head walks by a neighbour cleaning the pavement outside of her h...

Early Morning Ride by Alain Le Garsmeur A rider exercising a racehorse in the early morning, Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, August 1984. Paper size 16 x 20 inches / 40 ...

Kentucky Thoroughbred by Alain Le Garsmeur A thoroughbred horse on the Calumet horse farm, Blue grass country, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, 1984. Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 c...

Savannah Skateboard by Alain Le Garsmeur A man shows his balance skateboarding down the street in downtown Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983. Paper size 20 x 24 inches / 50 x 60 cm Print...

This listing is for the unframed photograph. The Robin Rice Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2019, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a fe...

Savannah Strike by Alain Le Garsmeur Group of men having fun playing baseball in the street in downtown Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983. Paper size 16 x 20 inches / 40 x 50 cm Printed...

Prison Visit by Alain Le Garsmeur A prisoner with his visiting children in Tegucigalpa main prison, Honduras, Central America, 1981. Paper size 30 x 20 inches / 76 x 50 cm Printed ...

Mosquito Coast Boat Building by Alain Le Garsmeur Wooden boat building in a village in Mosquito Coast, Honduras, Central America, 1981. Paper size 16 x 20 inches / 40 x 50 cm Prin...

Village Girl by Alain Le Garsmeur A girl walks through her village in Mosquito Coast, Honduras, Central America, 1981. Paper size 20 x 16 inches / 50 x...

Isletas Ice by Alain Le Garsmeur People wait by an ice cream cart in Isletas near Isletas banana plantation, Honduras, Central America, 1981. Paper siz...

Pool On Amalfi Coast A view of the seaside pool at the Hotel St. Caterina, Amalfi, Italy, September 1984. Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition...

An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Miranda‘ who was captured on film in 198...

Street Stall by Alain Le Garsmeur A woman stands at her stall in a street market, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Central America, 1981. Paper size 16 x 20 inches / 40 x 50 cm Printed in 20...

Thoroughbred Stables by Alain Le Garsmeur Thoroughbred horses in front of their stables on the Calumet horse farm, Bluegrass country, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, 1984. Paper size 30 x...

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Von Oswald House A group of people relax in the garden at the house of Johanna Von Oswald, 1986. (Photo by Slim Aarons) Chromogenic print paper size 1...

This work is unique. Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the Artist and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Foundation numb...

Jokhang Monks by Alain Le Garsmeur Buddhist monks inside Jokhang Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Lhasa, Tibet, 1985. Paper size 30 x 40 inches / 76 x 101 cm Printed in 2022...

Fishing For Shrimp by Alain Le Garsmeur African American fishermen fishing on a dock for shrimps, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983. Paper size 40 x 30 inches / 101 x 76 cm Printed in...

Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of a swimming pool in Rosarda, Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, August 1982. Visual Description:...

New York City Street by Fernando Natalici: Manhattan 1984. The simplicity & grace of a metal sign featuring a cowboy boot sways in the wind. The trees twist and bend around the boots...

Gow, Thailand, 1987 - 30x20cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print based on a 35mm negative. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted.

Slim Aarons' Pool at Porto Rotundo, an Estate Edition photograph, is a vintage scene of a swimming pool in Rosarda, Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, Italy, August 1982. Visual Description:...

Princess Caroline of Monaco 1981 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the es...

Pooh, Thailand, 1987 - 30x20cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print based on a 35mm negative. Signed on back with Certificate. Not mounted.

A celebration of Life is symbolized by a rooftop Black Jazz Musician hitting the high note just as a fireworks display lights up the New York sky. Signed ...

Joan Jett - signed limited edition print Joan Jett, I Love Rock'n'Roll album cover photograph, 1981. (photo Mick Rock) paper size : 24x20 inches / 51 x 61...

Charlie Ahearn, "Rapture" 1981: A rare historic Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, Fab 5 Freddy photograph captured by Wild Style director Charlie Ahea...

'Sunbathing On Capri' 1980 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticken and Pamela Grupas - on ...

Towboat At Hotel Du Cap-Eden-Roc 1969 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. A motorboat, used to...

'Polo Party' 1981 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America's foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, ...

Slim Aarons Gavina Hotel Pool (Slim Aarons Estate Edition), 1984 Chromogenic lambda print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 40 x 30 inches A view of the seaside pool at th...

Slim Aarons Estate Print - Polo Party - Oversize Paul Butler, patriarch of one of America’s foremost polo families, with his son, daughter, grandchildren and son-in-law, Palm Beach,...

Abaco Islander Author Chester Thompson at work in his coconut grove on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, March 1986. His ancester Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, foun...

Roman Castels is a beautiful offset print realized after a photograph by Franco Fontana. Very Good conditions. Franco Fontana (Modena, 1933) is one of the Italian most famous conte...

Saint-Tropez Garden 1977 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the estate. An elegant woman poses in a garde...

Plantation Cocoyer People relaxing in the bar at Plantation Cocoyer, Cocoyer Beach, Haiti, February 1981. Slim Aarons Chromogenic C print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition...

In American Motel Signs Steve Fitch crisscrossed the United States documenting the colorful dynamic, advertisements inviting weary traveler to ...

An original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sanderson (1951- 2020) titled ‘Miranda‘ who was captured on film in 198...

Take Two by Alain Le Garsmeur Two dancers in a bomb shelter used as a nightclub, Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China, 1985. Paper size 24 x 20 inches / 60 ...

Savannah Food Store by Alain Le Garsmeur A food store on the corner in downtown Savannah, Georgia, USA, 1983. Paper size 16 x 20 inches / 40 x 50 cm Printed in 2022 - produced fro...

Abaco Islander Author Chester Thompson at work in his coconut grove on the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas, March 1986. His ancester Wyannie Malone settled on the islands in 1783, foun...

Turquoise Corner by Alain Le Garsmeur Locals on a street corner, Nicaragua, Central America, 1981. Paper size 20 x 24 inches / 50 x 60 cm Printed in 2022 - produced from the origina...

Ski Expedition (1981) Silver Gelatin Fibre Print - Oversized (Photo by Alamy Archives) Skier descends into a dangerous canyon on the trans-Himalayan expedition, 21st March 1981. ...

Seabank Sunbathers by Alain Le Garsmeur Residents of holiday flats sunbathing in the seaside town of Blackpool, Lancashire, England, 1981. Paper size 24 x 20 inches / 60 x 50 cm Pri...

Field Girls by Alain Le Garsmeur Mennonite girls working in fields, Spanish Lookout Settlement, Belize, Central America, June 1985. Paper size 20 x 16 inches / 50 x 40 cm Printed in...

China Girl by Alain Le Garsmeur A Chinese woman worker looks out from a window in a plastics factory, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China, 1985. Paper size ...

Slim Aarons At Home With The Montegazzas 1983 (printed later) C print Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150 with Certificate of authenticity Giacomo Montegazza and Stefania M...

Kentucky Farm by Alain Le Garsmeur Fencing along the Calumet thoroughbred horse farm, Bluegrass country, Lexington, Kentucky, 1984. Paper size 16 x 20 inches / 40 x 50 cm Printed ...

Mosquito Coast by Alain Le Garsmeur Horses rest by a beach in Mosquito Coast, Honduras, Central America, 1981. Paper size 20 x 24 inches / 50 x 60 cm Printed in 2022 - produced fro...