Jack on West Mesa
Artist
Anne Noggle
(American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1987
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 1/8 × 18 3/8 in. (33.3 × 46.7 cm)
Support: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
Support: 16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.6 × 50.5 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.15
DescriptionAt center of composition is a man standing outdoors, wearing a light-colored shirt, with arms outstretched and an exaggerated, dramatic expression.Text Entries
Noggle also photographed artist Karen Truax, at this location (see “Karen, West Mesa,” 2016.2.4).
Noggle
usually photographed her friends and family but almost anyone who came into her
orbit might be asked to pose for her. This picture features Jack Okon, brother
of Noggle’s friend Betty Hahn, gesturing expansively on Albuquerque’s West
Mesa.
Jack Okon (American, born 1944) was ordained as a Catholic priest in
1970 and lived in Indianapolis, Indiana where he was in residence at St.
Matthew Catholic Church in the northeast part of the city. Okon resigned
as a priest in May 2003 under the shadow of accusations of wrongdoing. His
sister, Betty Hahn, says he was in Albuquerque at the time this portrait was
made because her husband had died in May of 1987 and he came out to spend time
with her.
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