Paul Caponigro Art
American, 1932-2024
Born in Boston in 1932, Paul Caponigro is one of America’s foremost landscape photographers. While he became interested in photography at age of thirteen, he also had a strong passion for music; he studied at Boston University College of Music in 1950 before deciding to focus on photography at the California School of Fine Art, where Ansel Adams had established one of the first photography programs in the United States. Despite the shift from music to photography early in his artistic career, Caponigro remains a dedicated piano player who believes that his musical training and insight influences his photographic imagery. Caponigro is best known for his interest in natural forms, landscapes, and still lives. His subjects include Stonehenge and other Celtic megaliths of England and Ireland; the temples, shrines and sacred gardens of Japan; and the deep mystical woodland of New England. His had his first solo exhibition at the George Eastman House in 1958 and his work has been shown in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. Throughout the 1960s he was a part-time teacher at Boston University while consulting on various technical research projects with the Polaroid Corporation. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships and three National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants. In recognition of a career spanning nearly seventy years and a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography, Caponigro was awarded The Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship in 2001. Renske van Leeuwento
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Artist: Paul Caponigro
Revere Beach, MA
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This large silver gelatin photograph with untrimmed margins is signed and titled in pencil in the margin under the image. Likely printed in the 1990s.
Category
1950s Abstract Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Frosted Window
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount. This rare exhibition print in glossy paper (later prints of this image from Portfolio II were made on...
Category
1950s Abstract Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Alberta, Canada, 1978
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Alberta, Canada, 1978
Signed in pencil on mount recto
Gelatin Silver Print
Image: 9 x 12.5 in. Paper: 11 x 14 in
Category
1970s Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stonehenge, Inner Trilithon Through Circle Stones
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by Paul. Mint Condition.
Framed in high grade plexiglass and metal frame.
Signed in pencil.
Category
1970s Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Stone Church Window, Glenaloough, Wicklow, Ireland
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Stone Church Window, Glenaloough, Wicklow, Ireland
Silver gelatin Print, c. 1967, printed c. 1989
Signed in pencil lower right on mount (see photo)
From: Stone Churches of Ireland, p...
Category
1980s American Modern Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Nahant Beach, Massachusetts
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount. This print was produced in 1973 for inclusion in Portfolio II (Edition of 100).
Category
1950s Modern Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Sunflower, Winthrop, MA
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This vintage silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount.
Category
1960s Modern Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Desert Plant, Badlands, South Dakota
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Pacific Grove, CA
This silver gelatin print is signed in pencil on the front of the mount. Likely printed in the 1980s.
Category
1950s Abstract Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Shadows and Marbles, Cushing, ME Vintage Print
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Carmel, CA
Gelatin Silver Print, signed, titled, and dated on verso in pencil.
Great Condition.
Matted to 16x20"
Category
2010s Abstract Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$2,000 Sale Price
33% Off
Bare Tree & Adobe Wall, Taos, New Mexico, 1975/Printed 1976
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Bare Tree & Adobe Wall, Taos, New Mexico, 1975/Printed 1976
Signed, titled & dated in pencil on recto; mounted to a 22 x 18" archival matte
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
11.5 x 8.25 i...
Category
1970s Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Snow & Trees, Cuba, New Mexico
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in pencil on mount recto
Gelatin Silver Print
Paper 16"x20", Matted 22"x28"
Category
20th Century Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Silver Nautilus, M.A
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in pencil on mount recto
Gelatin silver print
Paper 10-1/4"x13-1/4",Matted 18"x22"
Category
1960s Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Kentucky Trees
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on mount recto
Gelatin silver print
Paper 9-3/4"x14-3/4", Mount 14-3/4"x20-1/4", Matted 18"x23"
Category
1960s Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
Blue Ridge Road, Virginia
By Paul Caponigro
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Signed in pencil on mount recto
Gelatin Silver print
Image 15 3/8"x18 5/8", Paper 16x20", Matted 24x28"
Category
1960s Paul Caponigro Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Price Upon Request
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