Letter from the Hotel Chelsea Page 3
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The prints in this portfolio are five-color (blue, grey, black, tan, and orange) printed on Arches 88 paper, bon a tirer, in an edition of seven, each including 7 photo silkscreens, a portfolio case, a T-shirt (unlimited edition), and a print of a blank sheet of Hotel Chelsea stationery (edition of 10). The edition was printed by Jim Kraft at Unified Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico. See “Betty Hahn, Photography or Maybe Not,” (UNM Press, 1995), p. 188.
The text in the images are from a letter written from the Chelsea Hotel in New York City by Diane Luppi, a former student of Betty Hahn’s at the University of New Mexico.
This image shows a blue background with an image of a handwritten letter on Hotel Chelsea letterhead, to Betty Hahn from Diane Luppi.
Letterhead reads: “ ‘A LANDMARK OF N.Y.C.’ / HOTEL CHELSEA/New York/
AT SEVENTH AVENUE/WEST TWENTY THIRD STREET/NEW YORK, N.Y. 10011/CABLE ADDRESS.HOCHELSEA.NEW YORK/TELEPHONE CHELSEA 3-3700” with image of hotel and clouds above it at top, and at bottom: “LARGE and SOUND-PROOF ROOMS”.