PAUL CAPONIGRO Point Lobos, Carmel, California (tide pool) 1956 7.25x9.75 in. Signed Color photograph Dye Transfer Print 1984 c from 4x5in. Anschochrome film ASG# PC/3028 mounted on 14x17 in.4 ply rag board signed below print on mount right. Verso has Douglas Kenyon Inc label with title and description attached

Caponigro likes the play of white highlights in a darker palate to achieve his classically meditative image. In this view the white bubbles highlight the muted brown and grays of the stones and sand.

Paul Caponigro has made a small body of color work; here he used Anschochrome film Anscos higher speed film competing against Kodakchrome in the 1950s and 1960s and also easier for photographers to process in their own darkrooms. Most of Caponigro's color work was printed as cibachrome see Lot 174 so the Dye Transfer prints are very rare.

Paul Caponigro (b. 1932) with a career spanning sixty years, Paul Caponigro is internationally regarded as one of the greatest photographers of our time. Caponigro has devoted his life to exploring the natural world and architecture from antiquity. His vision has its roots in Paul Strand's response to the purity of forms and in the metaphysical/metaphorical tradition of Minor White. His printing reflects a heightened sensitivity toward gray and black tonalities and is considered the best in the world. Beyond the directness of his compositions and attention to details, Caponigro's photographs convey deeper meanings. Whether the subject is a landscape, a solitary apple, a ring of standing stones, or a simple piece of aluminum foil, his pictures invoke the promise of growth and regeneration mingled with timelessness. Paul Caponigro lives in Maine. Andrew Smith Gallery has been exhibiting Paul Caponigro work since the late 1980s when the Gallery opened in Santa Fe.

Excellent. Minor wear