Homage to Meatyard
Artist
Anne Noggle
(American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1987-1988
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 16 1/2 × 11 1/8 in. (41.9 × 28.3 cm)
Support: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Support: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of the Anne Noggle Foundation, 2016
Object number2016.2.20
DescriptionFull-length portrait of two people, the one on the left perched on a high stool and the one on the right standing with right hand on left shoulder of other figure. Figure at right is dressed in trousers with suspenders and a button-front dress shirt. He wears a maks of a wrinkled face and light hair in disarray. Figure at left is dressed as a woman in a skirt with a shirt and cardigan on top. She wears a wrinkled-face mask and straight white hair, along with a ring on left hand.eMuseum Notes
Anne Noggle probably learned about the photographer Ralph
Eugene Meatyard from Van Deren Coke, her
teacher at the University of New Mexico. Coke -- himself a prominent
photographer, curator, and professor -- was a native of Lexington, Kentucky, where
Meatyard lived and worked as an optican as well as a photographer. Meatyard is
known for using family members and neighbors as models and posing them in
ordinary settings wearing masks. Since Noggle’s
close circle of family and friends were also her models and because she used
masks in some of her self-portraits, she may have felt an affinity with
Meatyard.
In this tribute, she and
one of her students pose in masks, forming a macabre couple.
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