Title: Road and Rainbow
Date: 1971
Betty Hahn's Road and Rainbow alludes a vintage or nostalgic emotion. The photo in this image is of a road wrapping around the side of a house or farm with a brightly colored rainbow she embroidered. These images are printed onto cotton fabric using a process called gum bichromate and a negative of a photograph. She then embroiders external images onto the fabric that weren't in the original image, thus almost collages images together. The photo itself is not in color for the most part except for the yellow line in the road. In doing so it puts a bit more emphases on the rainbow itself since it stands out so much. This make the viewer question her intensions of adding this rainbow and why she made it so colorful. A feeling of happiness is present, but since the rainbow is obviously handmade the falseness of the image is obvious. There is a slight cozy homemade emotion with the whole fabric and the process of the printing as well. Everything seems more handcrafted than traditional photography.
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