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Stellar by Starlight
Stellar by Starlight
Stellar by Starlight

Stellar by Starlight

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1986
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 18 13/16 × 13 7/8 in. (47.8 × 35.2 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 number2016.2.27
DescriptionNude woman rising from center of composition, partially shrouded in mist, with arms stretched upward toward corners of page. She is wearing large eyeglasses, a tiara, and earrings. In foreground is back of man’s head at left and three-quarter view of another man’s hand, arm, back and back of head at right.
Text Entries
Wearing only her birthday suit, a tiara, and a pair of eyeglasses, the artist is seen here ascending resplendently from her backyard hot tub, surrounded by an appreciative audience. Noggle sometimes described her photographs as chronicling “the saga of the fallen flesh,” but the expression on her face in this picture tells us her lust for life remains undiminished in the face of fading eyesight, an expanding waistline, and other indignities of age.
According to a conversation with the artist’s assist Jim Holbrook in 2016, this photograph was taken in the artist’s back yard in Albuquerquqe. Holbrook is one of the figures in the photograph at far right. This photograph is one print from a triptych and is the central panel of three.

 

The Museum owns duplicate copies of this image. The accession numbers are: 2016.2.27 and 2017.7.2a-c
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