Self Image #4 (from the series Face Lift)
Artist
Anne Noggle
(American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1975
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 × 10 1/2 in. (17.8 × 26.7 cm)
Support: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Support: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.3
DescriptionHead and shoulders view of a woman facing camera with bangs and shoulder-length hair which appears to be wet. She has a terrycloth towel around her neck. Behind her is an ivy covered wall.eMuseum Notes
In
the early 1970s, Noggle had extensive surgeries on her lungs which were damaged
by her work as a crop duster and ended her career as a pilot. She felt that
these operations aged her and decided to get a face lift in 1975. She saw it in
a very positive light, as a way to revive her appearance, and documented
herself in photographs before the surgery and after for her series “Face Lift.”
Apparently her interest in the beauty of aging faces did not extend to her own
visage.
As
was fashionable at the time, Noggle filed the edges of her negative carrier to
create a black border around her prints in the 1960s to mis-1970s, as seen on
this print. The color of the print also suggests it may not have been well
processed in the darkroom.
The photograph was taken in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the yard of the artist’s house on Mesa Grande.
On View
Not on view
