Paul Caponigro né le 7 Décembre, 1932, est un photographe Américain de Boston dans le Massachusetts aux états Unis.
Paul Caponigro a un intérêt pour la photographie à l'age 13 ans. Cependant, il passionné pour la musique et a commence à étudier la musique à l'Université de Boston College of Music en 1950, avant de finalement décider de se concentrer sur des études de photographie à l'École des Beaux-Arts en Californie.
Caponigro studied with Minor White and has been awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships and three grants from the NEA. His best known photographs are Running White Deer and Galaxy Apple. His subject matter includes landscape and still life, taking an interest in natural forms. He is best known for his landscape works and for the mystical and spiritual qualities of his work. He is often regarded as one of America's foremost landscape photographers.[2] Caponigro's first one-man exhibition took place at the George Eastman House in 1958. In the 1960s Caponigro taught photography part-time at Boston University while consulting the Polaroid Corporation on various technical research. Caponigro lived in El Rancho de San Sebastian during his time in New Mexico from 1973-1993.[3]
In 1971, his work was exhibited in group exhibition "Le Groupe Libre Expression : Expo 5", presented by Jean-Claude Gautrand, at Les Rencontres d'Arles festival, France.
Caponigro's work is included in the collections of the Guggenheim, Whitney, Norton Simon Museum, New Mexico Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
He was awarded The Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography in 2001.
Caponigro is a dedicated pianist and considers his training with music to be essential to his photographic imagery.
His son, John Paul Caponigro, is a digital photographic artist.
Over 100 lots of photographs to be offered including works by
Margaret Bourke-White, Max Yavno, Don Hong-Oai, Edward S. Curtis, Paul Caponigro, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Ruth Bernard, Edward Weston, Peter Stackpole, Jock Sturges, Michael Kenna, among many others.
© Ernst Haas - Western skies motel, Colorado (1978)
© Margaret Bourke-White - Ocelot, Georgia (1936)
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In its only West Coast venue, exhibition showcases exemplary work by contemporary photographers Bruce Davidson and Paul Caponigro (MaryLou and George Boone Gallery).
This traveling exhibition pairs for the first time 128 works by American photographers Paul Caponigro (b. 1932) and Bruce Davidson (b. 1933), enlightened observers of Britain and Ireland in the 1960s and ’70s. For Caponigro, Ireland and Britain became sites of creative energy to which he returned repeatedly. Davidson brought the same gritty street sensibility that had made his Brooklyn Gang series a sensation among photograph collectors. The exhibition examines the artistic, social, and historical forces informing two master photographers as they bring American eyes to enduring landscapes and changing cultural scenes.
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Andrew Smith Gallery's primary complex currently located next to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on the corner of Grant Ave. and Jonson St., features the David Arrington Collection of Ansel Adams photographs and works by masters including Lee Friedlander, Annie Leibovitz, Alfred Stieglitz and Ray Metzker.
On Saturday February 22, 2014 we open an exhibit of 18 photographs by the American photographer, Paul Caponigro, titled "Old and New." The exhibit continues through March 14, 2014. There will be a special preview reception for participants in the Edible Art Feast February 21, from 5 to 8 p.m with food provided by Terra Cotta Restaurant, (304 Johnson St., Santa Fe) Additionally, Andrew Smith Gallery celebrates the re-opening its storefront location at 203 W. San Francisco St., (across from Evangelos be...
Caponigro is renowned for expressing the spiritual by means of film photography, using the medium to maintain contact with an unseen, mysterious dimension. This retrospective exhibition of gelatin silver prints includes work from a career spanning over sixty years.
Nature has always been Caponigro's primary world of exploration and discovery. "I saw isolated objects - stones, trees, blades of grass, hills - as individual worlds relating to a larger whole, the landscape. As I looked further into nature, I began to catch glimpses of mysterious depths. Boundaries of separate objects lifted and opened, the land seemed charged with potent force and magic, alive and moving.”
Sound, another aspect of the natural world, is integral to Caponigro's life and work. He is a gifted pianist, and he underst...
L.A. ou si vous préférez Los Angeles, la cité des anges... et des démons. Pour quelques chanceux, L.A. est synonyme de soleil, de plage, de piscine, de corps sains et bronzés. Pour les autres, L.A. n'est souvent qu'une concentration d'autoroutes encombrées, de pollutions et de peurs de toutes sortes. C'est une ville sans centre et sans âme... Là-haut, dans les cieux, règnent les stars d'Hollywood; mais ici-bas, les habitants craignent un nouveau tremblement de terre ou le déclenchement d'émeutes. Rêve ou cauchemar? Réalité ou fiction? La vérité sur ce lieu mythique et fascinant se situe peut-être entre les deux.
Los Angeles, ville à multiples facettes, est adorée des photographes de tout...