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Paul Caponigro

American photographer Paul Caponigro (1932- ) found his calling in the communion with untouched nature and the inner life of the earth itself. Over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years now he has explored the inner beauty of the natural landscape with a contemplative and reverent eye. His photographs all seem to evoke an atmosphere of purity and stillness, and a kind of spiritual silence behind the visual surfaces. His earliest work was done in the countryside of his native New England, and he later travelled to Ireland and England to photograph ancient stone megaliths, and to Japan for studies of temples, shrines, and formal gardens. Most recently he has photographed a variety of still-life arrangements using natural materials such as leaves, shells, and stones found near his home in Maine.

Caponigro, Paul.
Paul Caponigro.
New York: Aperture, 1967; revised and enlarged ed. 1972.

Caponigro, Paul.
Sunflower.
New York: Filmhaus, 1974.

Caponigro, Paul.
Landscape.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975.

Caponigro, Paul.
Introduction by Peter C. Bunnell; edited by D. W. Mellor.
Paul Caponigro: Photography, 25 years.
Philadelphia: Photography Gallery, 1981.

Caponigro, Paul.
Essay by Marianne Fulton.
The Wise Silence: Photographs by Paul Caponigro.
Boston: New York Graphic Society Books in association with the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, 1983.

Caponigro, Paul.
Megaliths.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1986.

Caponigro, Paul.
Seasons: Photographs and Essay by Paul Caponigro.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1988.

Caponigro, Paul.
Masterworks from Forty Years.
Carmel: Photography West Graphics, 1993.

Caponigro, Paul.
The Voice of the Print.
Portland, ME: Muse Press, 1994.

Caponigro, Paul.
Meditations in Light.
Santa Fe, NM: 1996.

Caponigro, Paul.
Foreword by Aprile Gallant.
New England Days.
Boston: David R. Godine in association with the Portland Museum of Art, 2002.

Caponigro, Paul.
Paul Caponigro: Le forme della natura.
Milan: Nepente, 2003.

Caponigro, Paul.
Stone Churches of Ireland.
Revere, PA: Lodima Press, 2007.