Background
Paul Caponigro was born on December 7, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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This monograph tells more about Paul Caponigro than words can. It gives us the privilege of visiting undiscovered worlds through the sensual events of this world. It makes us know what it is to be stone or wood through the intuitions of light. Through his work that rare thing happens: what the heart feels is revealed in a radiance of outward form.
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Paul Caponigro has selected images from the work done in New England over the past quarter century. These images are profoundly New England: birch trees covered with winter snow; the stark sea coast of Maine; quiet, deserted, slightly disheveled fields. But they examine the particular as well as the general; the shape of a maple leaf, the intricacies of seashells, the contours of stones. Caponigro is a master, an exponent of a continuum that stretches back to the nineteenth century and, in his hands, extends into the future.
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A master class guide to using Adobe Photoshop for visual art, including step-by-step tutorials, with full color images to illustrate concepts. Teaches techniques such as achieving color accuracy, converting color to black and white, controlling atmospheric perspective, and more.
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Paul Caponigro was born on December 7, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Paul Caponigro started having interests in photography at age 13. However, he also had a strong passion in music and began to study music at Boston University College of Music in 1950, before eventually deciding to focus on studying photography at the California School of Fine Art.
After attending the Boston University College of Music from 1950 until 1951, where he studied piano, he began studying photography with Benjamen Chinn - a student of Ansel Adams and Minor White - at the California School of Fine Art. Caponigro worked with White intermittently as a student and an assistant, and this relationship had a significant impact on development of Caponigro’s style.
His first solo exhibition took place in 1958 at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, Unated States. In 1960, Paul Caponigro began teaching photography at Boston University, then in 1967 at New York University and in 1970 at Yale University. He was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1966 and 1975, which enabled him to pursue a long-term project of photographing ancient megalithic structures in England and Ireland. During the 1970s, Paul Caponigro moved to New Mexico, and photographed the American Southwest while living in Santa Fe. His work is included in numerous collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
The photographer is a founding member of the Association of Heliographers and their Gallery Archive in New York City, Unated States.
John Paul Caponigro is currently self-employed.
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1972(Photographs by Paul Caponigro and an essay by Marianne Fu...)
1983Callanish Stone Circle - Hebrides
1972Stone Voices
2004Stonehenge, England
1967Sand Garden #2, Tofukuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
1976Temple Mt. Hiei-San #2, Kyoto, Japan
1976Stone Buddha, Renge-Ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
1976Scottish Thistle, Rochester, NY
1958Sunflower, Winthrop, MA
1965Blue Ridge Parkway, Virginia
1965Monument Valley, Utah
1976Two Rivers, Redding, CT
1968Sky, Near Dixon, New Mexico
1977Detail, StoneHenge, Wiltshire, England
1970Golden Pavilion – Kinkakuji, Kyoto, Japan
1976Two Pears
1999Wood Pavilion – Tofukuji Temple, Kyoto
1976Pear, New York City
1964Drummer – Izumo-Tai, Japan
1976Within the Honden, Izumo-Tai, Shinto Shrine, Japan
1976Merced River, Yosemite, CA
1969
Quotations:
"I often see the materials of photography as being a type of terrain. Emulsions, liquid developers, silver salts, and fixers interact, and I construct a landscape that I need to first explore in my mind’s eye if I am to make it manifest as an artful image in silver."
"Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature."
"At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'."
"It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are."
"In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain "a state of heart", a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one’s vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit."
Paul Caponigro married Eleanor Morris Caponigro. They had a son, John Paul Caponigro who decided to become a photographer too.