The photographs she subsequently made, documenting how women age, received wide recognition and are held in numerous museum collections.

At 21, Noggle traveled to Sweetwater, Texas, to train to become a Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).

Influenced by female photographers such as Julia Margaret Cameron and Diane Arbus, Noggle's work mainly focused on the aging process of women, a subject which she referred to as "the saga of the fallen flesh".

[9] In 1975 Noggle co-curated an exhibition and catalog for the San Francisco Museum of Art, Women of Photography: An Historical Survey.

[12] The Harn Museum at the University of Florida presented an exhibition of Noggle's photographs from June 26, 2012 to March 10, 2013.

[18] Noggle's personal archive, which includes exhibition and work prints, contact sheets, negatives, correspondence, clippings, albums, handwritten and typed manuscripts, and book dummies, is located at the Harry Ransom Center.

[19] Her 1983 book Silver Lining contained photographs documenting the challenges she and other women in America faced as they grew older.

A Dance with Death, telling the story of the Soviet airwomen of World War II, was published in 1994.