PAUL CAPONIGRO, Black Ice, c. 1963, 9.75x7.75" Gelatin silver print, Printed c. 1963, Signed in pencil on print verso.

Caponigro has an intuitive ability to see the universal elements of nature in a pond, a rock, a flower, the stillness and flow of water, trees, roots... and his legendary darkroom craft allows him to create the most enduring prints of his generation.

Andrew Smith Gallery has worked with Paul Caponigro since the 1980s. Caponigro's love of nature is the basis of his photography, and he is fond of saying that rocks wink at him as he walks by. We might interpret this to mean that as he walks through the landscape, the objects call out to him, attracting his eye. Considered the greatest craftsman of his generation of photographers, his prints are unmatched in their emotional depth.

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 Leeuwen

CREDIT: International Center of Photography
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/paul-caponigro

Excellent. Minor edge wear.