PAUL CAPONIGRO – SIXTY YEARS
2020-01-20The nearly 50 black and white images in the exhibition include work from as early as 1957and encompasshis extensive career photographing in the Southwest, California, and New England, as well as Irelandand England.The show includesa selection of Paul’s most iconic images as well as images that have never before been exhibited.
At the age of 18, he studied at the Boston University College of Music before deciding to focus on photography on the opposite coast at the California School of Fine Art, where Ansel Adams had established one of the first photography programs in the United States. Despite this 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. When asked in what way, he replied, “The patterns of the frost on a window give me the same feeling as musical notes when played on the piano…to this day my images of frost on windows continue to be my favorites for this reason.” One of the earliest prints we have in the exhibition is of frost on a window taken in 1957 in Ipswich, Massachusetts and reflects the emotion Paul speaks of.
Opposite – Apple, Winthrop, MA, 1964
Exhibition runs through to February 29th, 2020
Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta
Santa Fe
87505 NM
