United States from 1960 until the present. Helped found
the Association of Heliographers and their Gallery
Archive in New York, 1963. Married Eleanor Morris
in 1964. Two Guggenheim Fellowships, in the British
Isles in 1966 and Japan in 1975. Exhibition at The
Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1968. National
Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship in
1975 and 1982. Moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico in- Arts Council of Great Britain Grant, 1978; Peer
Award, Friends of Photography, Carmel, California,
1983; Annual Governor’s Award, New Mexico, 1984.
Moved to Maine in the early 1990s and has taught
extensively throughout the United States at universities
and workshops.
Selected Exhibitions
1985 Paul Caponigro; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cincinnati,
Ohio
Le Forme della Natura; Fondazione Italiana per la
Fotografia; Torino, Italia
1987 The Implicit Image; San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art; San Francisco
Facets of Modernism; San Francisco Museum of Art;
San Francisco
Paul Caponigro; National Museum of Modern Art;
Kyoto, Japan
Paul Caponigro; Museum of Fine Art, Museum of
New Mexico; Santa Fe
Legacy of Light; Polaroid Corporation; Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Photography and Art; Los Angeles County Museum of
Art
1988 Paul Caponigro; Museum of Contemporary Photogra-
phy; Columbia College, Chicago Illinois
Photography Speaks; Chrysler Museum; Norfolk, Vir-
ginia
Megaliths; Spencer Museum of Art; University of
Kansas, Lawrence
Master Photographs from ‘‘Photography in the Fine
Arts’’ Exhibitions from 1959–1987; International Center
of Photography; New York
Paul Caponigro; Shoto Museum of Art; Tokyo
1995 Canyonland Visions; Amon Carter Museum; Fort
Worth, Texas
1996 Meditations in Light; The Farnsworth Art Museum;
Rockland, Maine and traveling
1998 Meditations in Light; Art Museum of Southeast Texas,
Beaumont, Texas
2002 New England Days; Portland Museum of Art, Port-
land, Oregon
2003 Le Forme della Natura; Galleria Civica di Modena;
Italia
Le Forme della Natura; Fandazione Italiana per la
Fotografia; Torino, Italia
Monographs
Paul Caponigro: Le Forme della Natura. Italy: Nepente, 2003.
New England Days: Photographs by Paul Caponigro. Port-
land, Maine: The Portland Museum of Art, 2002.
Paul Caponigro:Meditation in Light. Rockland, ME: The
Morris Press, 1996.
Paul Caponigro: The Voice of the Print. Portland, ME:
Muse Press, 1994.
Paul Caponigro:Masterworks From Forty Years. Carmel,
CA: Photography West Graphics, Inc., 1993.
Paul Caponigro: Seasons. New York: New York Graphic
Society, 1988.
Paul Caponigro:Megaliths. New York: Little Brown and
Company, 1986.
Paul Caponigro: Photography: 25 Years. Introduction by
Peter C. Bunnell. Edited By D.W. Mellor. Exhibition
catalog for the Photography Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa.
and The Weston Gallery, Carmel, CA, 1981.
Paul Caponigro. Landscape. New York: McGraw Hill, 1975.
Sunflower. New York, 1974.
Paul Caponigro. Millerton, New York: Aperature, 1967,
revised edition 1972.
The Music of Willem Nyland. New York, 1963, 1964.Further Reading
Brown, Bruce.Photographing Maine:1840–2000. Rockport:
Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Maine Coasts
Artists, 2000.
Bunnell, Peter C.Photography at Princeton: Celebrating
Twenty-Five Years of Collections and Teaching the His-
tory of Photography. Princeton: The Art Museum,
Princeton University, 1998.
Caponigro, Paul. Millerton, New York: Aperture, Inc., 1972.
Fulton, Marianne.The Wise Silence: Photography by Paul
Caponigro. New York: New York Graphic Society
Books and Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1983.
Hawkins, Gerald S.Stonehenge Decoded. New York: Dell
Publishing Company, 1965.
Hill, Paul, and Thomas Cooper.Dialogue with Photogra-
phy. London and New York: 1979.
Szarkowski, John.Mirrors and Windows: American Photogra-
phy since 1960. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1978.
Szarkowski, John.Photographie Nouvelle des Etats-Unis.
Paris, 1969.
Szarkowski, John.The Photographer’s Eye. New York:
Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
Szarkowski, John.The Photographer and the American
Landscape. New York: Museum of Modern Art, New
York, 1963.
Witkin, Lee D., and Barbara London.The Photograph Col-
lector’s Guide. Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1979.CAPONIGRO, PAUL