Untitled (Volkswagen and Dachshund)
Artist
Anne Noggle
(American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1969-1970
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 5/8 × 12 3/4 in. (21.9 × 32.4 cm)
Support: 10 1/8 × 13 5/8 in. (25.7 × 34.6 cm)
Mat: 14 × 17 in. (35.6 × 43.2 cm)
Support: 10 1/8 × 13 5/8 in. (25.7 × 34.6 cm)
Mat: 14 × 17 in. (35.6 × 43.2 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.2
DescriptionIn foreground, front left bumper and headlight of a light-colored Volkswagen Beetle. Next to it is a dachshund on the sidewalk and in the background are driveways and a house.Text Entries
In
a 2015 conversation between artist Betty Hahn and curator Katherine Ware, Hahn
confirmed that the car, dog, and house in this picture belonged to Noggle, who
was a close friend.
The photograph was taken in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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
local architecture and landmarks, as well as her own neighborhood, including
this image of her car and dog, with her house in the background.
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