Before becoming a professional artist at the age of 43, Anne Noggle had been a pilot in WWII and had served as a captain in the Air Force during the Korean Conflict. Amelia Earhart was an early hero, the airplane her early love. She began take pilot lessons when she was 17. After the wars and time spent as a crop duster, Noggle went to college at the University of New Mexico where she says she “fell passionately in love with another machine, the camera.” Many of her subjects are older women whom she said carry “the revelation of life, and the conflict between what was and what they are now.” Her own self-portraits document this conflict and are compelling images of power in the face of decline.
Facelift #3, 1975; Silver gelatin print; Image size: 288 x 408 mm
Myself As a Pilot, 1982; Silver gelatin print; Image size: 288 x 397 mm
Self-Portrait, 1970; Silver gelatin print; Image size: 118 x 267 mm
Untitled (Agnes), date unknown; Silver gelatin print; Image size: 224 x 325 mm
Triptych, 1980; Silver gelatin print; Image size: 278 x 385 mm
Yolanda: Sic Trandit Gloria Sepse, 1983; Silver gelatin print; Image size: 370 x 479 mm
Artist Printmaker/Photographer Research Collection ● AP/RC ● Art Division of the Museum of Texas Tech University 