Oral history interview with Paul Caponigro
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 7 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 12 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 19 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Caponigro, Paul, 1932-
label: Interviewer
content: Larsen, Susan C.
label: Names
content: Adams, Ansel, 1902-1984
label: Names
content: Bufano, Beniamino, 1898-1970
label: Names
content: Bunnell, Peter C.
label: Names
content: Chappell, Walter, 1925-
label: Names
content: Chiarenza, Carl
label: Names
content: Clergue, Lucien.
label: Names
content: Clift, William
label: Names
content: Cosindas, Marie, 1925-
label: Names
content: Cunningham, Imogen, 1883-1976
label: Names
content: Graves, Morris, 1910-2001
label: Names
content: Lange, Dorothea
label: Names
content: Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993
label: Names
content: O'Keeffe, Georgia, 1887-1986
label: Names
content: Ranney, Edward.
label: Names
content: Russek, Janet
label: Names
content: Scheinbaum, David, 1951-
label: Names
content: Singer, Robert T.
label: Names
content: Strand, Paul, 1890-1976
label: Names
content: Szarkowski, John
label: Names
content: Tice, George A.
label: Names
content: Uelsmann, Jerry, 1934-
label: Names
content: Westin, Bert
label: Names
content: White, Minor
topic: label: Topic
content: Photography, Artistic
label: Topic
content: Photographers -- Maine -- Cushing -- Interviews.
label: Topic
content: Photographers -- New Mexico -- Santa Fe -- Interviews.
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Caponigro, Paul, 1932-
label: Interviewer
content: Larsen, Susan C.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Paul Caponigro (1932- ) is a photographer and teacher from New England and New Mexico.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 87 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1999 July 30-August 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.caponi99
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Paul Caponigro conducted 1999 July 30-August 12, by Susan C. Larsen, for the Archives of American Art, at Caponigro's home, in Cushing, Maine.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Caponigro describes his childhood, military career, and travels through the southwest and northern California, his association with Minor White, exhibitions, publications, employment, and marriage to wife Eleanor.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Caponigro discusses the significance of his Stonehenge series of photographs; others' interpretations of his work; further exhibitions; and the role that his family's move to Santa Fe, New Mexico, has played in the evolution of his work.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Further discussion of the photographic scene in Santa Fe and its connection to American modernist photographers such as Paul Strand and Ansel Adams; travels; Guggenheim grant; the 1991 fall from a rocky ledge that was a physical and spiritual watershed in his life; and his new home in Cushing, Maine.
label: Scope and Contents
content: He recalls George Tice, Ansel Adams, Minor White, Bert Westin, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Oliver Gagliani, Beniamino Bufano, Morris Graves, Walter Chappell, Jerry Uelsmann, Carl Chiarenza, William Clift, Marie Cosindas, Peter Bunnell, John Szarkowski, Robert Singer, Beaumont Newhall, Georgia O'Keeffe, Ed Ranney, David Scheinbaum, Janet Russek, Lucien Clergue, and many others.