Background
Anne Noggle was born on June 12, 1922, in Evanston, Illinois, United States. She was the daughter of Raymond William and Agnes (Jenkins) Noggle.
The University of New Mexico
Anne Noggle was born on June 12, 1922, in Evanston, Illinois, United States. She was the daughter of Raymond William and Agnes (Jenkins) Noggle.
Anne Noggle went back to school, at the University of New Mexico; she earned a bachelor's degree in fine art in 1966 and in 1969 graduated with a master's degree in art. She developed her skills as a photographer and developed an interest in documenting the aging process of women - including her own "witty and challenging" self-portraits.
Influenced by female photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Diane Arbus, Anne Noggle's work mainly focused on the aging process of women, a subject which she referred to as "the saga of the fallen flesh". Using humor and pathos to depict the women she photographed, she photographed her subjects in a way that displayed both femininity and sexual energy. Perhaps her most famous series of photographs was taken in 1975 when she photographed herself after receiving a facelift. Her ability to find beauty using bizarre subject matter typified her career as a photographer.
Anne Noggle was 48 when she had her first one-woman show, at a gallery in Taos, New Mexico, in 1970. She was Curator of Photography at the New Mexico Museum of Art from 1970 to 1976.
Anne Noggle taught as an adjunct professor of Art at the University of New Mexico from 1970 to 1984.
Quotations:
"I flew airplanes for a living for eleven years and 6,000 hours . . . When I was twenty-five I became a stunt pilot with an air show; when I was twenty-six I became a crop-duster pilot."
"I like older faces, not because of aging itself, but rather the look of the face, the revelation of life, and the conflict between what was and what they are now. What interests me, not the idea of aging itself."
"I find young faces a tabula rasa, nothing is written there. They are empty until they reach their 40s. Then they become photographable."
Served with WASP, 1943-1944. Served with United States Air Force, 1953-1959. Member Society Photographic Education.
When Anne Noggle was 17, her mother, a bookstore manager, agreed to let her take flying lessons. At 21, she traveled to Sweetwater, Texas, to train to become one of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP). She graduated in the class of 44-W-1. She flew missions in 1943 and 1944. The WASP was disbanded in late 1944. After the war, Anne Noggle became a crop-duster in the Southwest and flew stunts in an aerial circus.
When the Air Force offered commissions to former WASPs after the war, she applied and was a pilot during the Korean War. Anne Noggle retired as a captain in 1959 when she developed emphysema.