Southwest Passage
Artist
Anne Noggle
(American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1982
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 17 7/8 × 14 5/8 in. (45.4 × 37.1 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 number2016.2.10
DescriptionWoman in driver’s seat of car with partial face in extreme foreground at right. Interior of the car is in dim light but her left eyeball is prominent and bright. Her right arm is extended with hand on steering wheel and the sweater she is wearing is turned up at the cuff and wrinkled in a ring pattern along her arm. High desert landscape visible through windshield, punctuated by rear-view mirror.eMuseum Notes
Noggle
often photographed herself while driving in her Volkswagen Beetle between
Albuquerue and Santa Fe. In this extreme self-portrait, an ordinary commute
takes on sinister and macabre overtones.
On View
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