Stellar by Starlight
Artist
Anne Noggle
(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)
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.eMuseum Notes
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.
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