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Untitled (Rest Area Bathroom)
Untitled (Rest Area Bathroom)
Untitled (Rest Area Bathroom)

Untitled (Rest Area Bathroom)

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1969-1970
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 3/4 × 12 1/2 in. (19.7 × 31.8 cm)
Support: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 14 × 17 in. (35.6 × 43.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.1
DescriptionInterior of a public restroom built with cinder blocks. At left is a freestanding trash can and at right are two wall-mounted sinks with mirrors above them and some kind of sign in between. Floor is tiled and marked by a large shaft of light.
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After a career as a Women Airforce Service Pilot, an airshow pilot, and a crop duster, Anne Noggle settled in Albuquerque, New Mexico and enrolled as a freshman at the University of New Mexico (UNM) at age 38. While studying art history, Noggle took a photography class and loved it, later saying that watching a photograph develop in the darkroom was almost as exciting as flying an airplane. In her early work from the late 1960s and early 1970s, Noggle is engaged in a search for subjects. She  starts out close to home, making pictures of her neighborhood and places she encountered while driving between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, such as this rest area.
In a conversation with Katherine Ware, Noggle’s friend and studio assistant Jim Holbrook speculated that this image may have been made on a visit to  California.
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