In an obituary in the Guardian, Christopher Hawtree says that Anne Noggle managed two of the century's most emblematic careers. First, she was an aviator with the Women Airforce Service Pilots (Wasps) during WWII, then she became an art photographer.

"Taking as her themes the body and the ageing process, Noggle did not shy away from depicting people, mainly women, in a decaying, even primaeval state suffused with sexual energy: among her work is an extraordinary series which shows her recovery from a facelift operation," writes Hawtree.

Noggle was born in Evanston, Illinois, and at the age of 18, was chosen for the Wasps. She joined the US Air Force and served as a captain during the Korean War but gave up her aviation career in the late 1950s. Noggle then went to the University of New Mexico to study photography.

She published three books, the first was Silver Lining (1984), the second was about the Wasps called, For God, Country and the Thrill of it (1990), and the final one was A Dance with Death (1994), on Russian women pilots who survived combat.

Anne Noggle died August 16 at the age of 83 at her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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