Paul Caponigro

Represented by Pucker Gallery since 2010

BORN: 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts
DIED: 10 November 2024, Cushing ME

Tribute to Paul Caponigro

Paul Caponigro is renowned as one of America’s most significant photographers. At the age of thirteen, he began to explore the world around him with his camera and has subsequently sustained a career spanning six decades. Acclaimed for his spiritually moving images of Stonehenge and other Celtic megaliths of England and Ireland, Caponigro has also photographed the temples, shrines, and sacred gardens of Japan, and inspires viewers with glimpses of the mystical woodland of his native New England. Approaching nature receptively, Caponigro prefers to utilize an intuitive focus rather than merely arranging or recording forms and surface details. An unparalleled ability to engage the viewer in the mystical presence concealed in nature continues to leave a lasting contribution to photography. Currently, Caponigro has exhibited and taught throughout the United States and abroad. As a recipient of two Guggenheim fellowships and three National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants, in 2001 he received the Centenary Medal from the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of his significant contribution to the art of photography. Caponigro’s images are included in most history of photography texts and numerous museum collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Additional Works via artsy

Virtual Tours

Virtual Tour of seeing with my heart

Online Events and WebinArts

BEHIND THE EYE WEBINART 2023
Seeing With My Heart WebinART 2021

Past Exhibition Catalogues

Behind the Eye 2023 catalogue
Seeing with My Heart 2021 catalogue
sojourn in japan 2019 catalogue
Photographs 2017 catalogue
Dark into Light 2015 catalogue
Japan & Beyond 2013 catalogue
Alchemy of Sight 2011 catalogue

Paul Caponigro
Morning Mist, Redding Woods, CT, 1969
Silver gelatin print
8.5 x 11.25”
PC30

Paul Caponigro Sand Garden, Tofukuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan, 1976 Silver gelatin print 10 x 13" PC39

Paul Caponigro
Sand Garden, Tofukuji Temple, Kyoto, Japan, 1976
Silver gelatin print
10 x 13"
PC39

Paul Caponigro Eye of Horus, 2005 Silver gelatin print 7.5 x 11" PC179

Paul Caponigro
Eye of Horus, 2005
Silver gelatin print
7.5 x 11"
PC179

Paul Caponigro Running White Deer, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1967 Silver gelatin print 5.5 x 13.75” PC51

Paul Caponigro
Running White Deer, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1967
Silver gelatin print
5.5 x 13.75”
PC51

Paul Caponigro
Reflecting Stream, Redding, CT, 1968
Silver gelatin print
13.25 x 18.25"
PC14