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It Is I, It Is He, It Is She
It Is I, It Is He, It Is She
It Is I, It Is He, It Is She

It Is I, It Is He, It Is She

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1986
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 16 5/8 × 22 3/4 in. (42.2 × 57.8 cm)
Support: 19 7/8 × 23 7/8 in. (50.5 × 60.6 cm)
Mat: 22 × 28 in. (55.9 × 71.1 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.19
DescriptionSeated portrait of a woman dressed in a houndstooth suit jacket, plaid tie, white dress shirt, and floppy hat. Hair is pulled back under the hat and figure is wearing a false moustache.
Text Entries
Photographer, curator, and professor Van Deren Coke was a founding member of the Art Department at the University of New Mexico and one of Noggle’s teachers as well as her adviser. Here she disguises herself as Coke, which she says was “a lot of fun,” imitating and perhaps teasing her mentor. “What is consistent, and, I do believe, unique about her pictures is their humanism combined with her frankness about aging,” Coke wrote in the introduction to “Silver Lining” (1983), a book of Noggle’s photographs.
The date of 1986 is an estimate made by the curator at the time of the acquisition. In a conversation with Katherine Ware, Noggle’s friend and studio assistant Jim Holbrook said he would date this to 1986 and that he now has the hat Noggle is wearing in the picture.
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