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Southwest Passage
Southwest Passage
Southwest Passage

Southwest Passage

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1982
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 17 7/8 × 14 5/8 in. (45.4 × 37.1 cm)
Support: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.10
DescriptionWoman in driver’s seat of car with partial face in extreme foreground at right. Interior of the car is in dim light but her left eyeball is prominent and bright. Her right arm is extended with hand on steering wheel and the sweater she is wearing is turned up at the cuff and wrinkled in a ring pattern along her arm. High desert landscape visible through windshield, punctuated by rear-view mirror.
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Noggle often photographed herself while driving in her Volkswagen Beetle between Albuquerue and Santa Fe. In this extreme self-portrait, an ordinary commute takes on sinister and macabre overtones.
In a conversation with Katherine Ware, Noggle’s friend and studio assistant Jim Holbrook said he thought this was taken in Noggle’s Honda Civic.
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