Paul Caponigro

♂ *1932-2024 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

PAUL CAPONIGRO

Hunter Museum, Chattanooga (US)
16 Aug 2022 – 10 Apr 2023
Impact + Influence

Florida Museum Photo, Tampa (US)
28 Jan 2022 – 29 May 2022
Polaroids 1960-1969

Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
19 Nov 2021 – 15 Jan 2022
SIXTY YEARS 

A solo photographic exhibition by one of the foremost master photographers still working today.

Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
10 Jan 2020 – 29 Feb 2020
Photographs

Pucker Gallery, Boston (US)
9 Sep 2017 – 22 Oct 2017
To Hear Through the Eyes

Selections from the SFUAD Marion Center Permanent Collection

Marion Center for Photographic Arts, Santa Fe (US)
1 Feb 2015 – 15 May 2015
Stone and Light

KMR Arts, Washington Depot (US)
28 Jun 2014 – 1 Aug 2014
Old and New

Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
22 Feb 2014 – 14 Mar 2014
Japan and Beyond

Pucker Gallery, Boston (US)
31 Aug 2013 – 6 Oct 2013
The Hidden Presence of Places

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland (US)
30 Oct 2011 – 15 Jan 2012
In The Presence Of Paul Caponigro

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
10 Apr 2010 – 11 Sep 2010
Aluminum Series & Vintage Classics

Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
1 Apr 2009 – 15 Jun 2009
Meditations in Silver: Photographic Studies

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (US)
26 Jan 2008 – 6 Apr 2008
A Wise Silence

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
3 May 2007 – 3 Jul 2007
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point light, Sydney (AU)
10 Nov 2005 – 18 Dec 2005
Still Lifes 2004

Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
18 Mar 2005 – 16 May 2005
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Nepente Art Gallery, Milano (IT)
14 Dec 2004 – 26 Feb 2005
Le forme della natura

Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Torino (IT)
29 Oct 2003 – 11 Jan 2004
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Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla (US)
25 Apr 2003 – 8 Jul 2003
Le forme della natura

FMAV - Palazzo, Modena (IT)
5 Apr 2003 – 29 Jun 2003

Group

Virtuosos

Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
20 Feb 2026 – 26 Apr 2026

with Ansel Adams
In the Lights of Shadows

Meisterwerke der Sammlung SpallArt

Forum für Fotografie, Köln (DE)
1 Nov 2025 – 17 Jan 2026

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Werner Bischof, Josef Breitenbach, Marilyn Bridges, Harry Callahan, Lucien Clergue, Ralf Cohen, Harold E. Edgerton, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eliot Elisofon, Walker Evans …
ICONIC NATURE PHOTOGRAPHS

A Collection of American Vintage Prints

WBB Gallery, Zürich (CH)
15 Sep 2024 – 29 Mar 2025

with Robert Adams, Ansel Adams, Morley Baer, Ruth Bernhard, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Jeffrey Conley, Imogen Cunningham, Cy DeCosse, Henry Gilpin, Alma Lavenson, Roman Loranc …
Two Generations: Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro

Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
15 Sep 2023 – 18 Nov 2023

with John Paul Caponigro
The Flower Show

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
17 Jun 2023 – 7 Oct 2023

with Laure Albin-Guillot, Jan Bulhak, Wynn Bullock, Andrew Bush, Julia Margaret Cameron, Brigitte Carnochan, Bruce Davidson, Robert Doisneau, Elliott Erwitt, Ernesto Esquer, Flor Garduno, Luis Gonzalez Palma …
Drawn to the Light

50 Years of Photography at Maine Media Workshops + College

Portland Museum of Art, Portland (US)
16 Jun 2023 – 10 Sep 2023

with Keith Carter, Ernst Haas, Jay Maisel, Sally Mann, Mary Ellen Mark, Arnold Newman, Elizabeth Opalenik, Melissa Shook, Rodney Smith, Joyce Tenneson
PURE PHOTOGRAPHY

20th Century Floral Masterworks

WBB Gallery, Zürich (CH)
11 Mar 2023 – 26 Aug 2023

with Ansel Adams, Morley Baer, Wynn Bullock, Walter Chappell, Imogen Cunningham, Henry Gilpin, Bob Kolbrener, Roman Loranc, Robert Mapplethorpe, Willard van Dyke, Edward Weston, Minor White
A BEAUTIFUL WORLD: THE POWER OF NATURE

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
14 Jan 2023 – 20 May 2023

with Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Jeffrey Conley, Martine Franck, Flor Garduno, Henry Gilpin, Cig Harvey, Michael Kenna, Andre Kertesz, Kurt Markus, Don McCullin, Sebastiao Salgado …
Expressions of Compassion

Selections from the Barbara Morris Goodbody Photography Collection

Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston (US)
28 Oct 2022 – 18 Mar 2023

with Amy Arbus, Walter Chappell, Dominic Chavez, Lucien Clergue, Madeleine de Sinéty, Donna DeCesare, Judy Glickman Lauder, Ernst Haas, Stella Johnson, Elizabeth Opalenik, Jean-Pierre Sudre, Todd Webb
DYNAMIC RANGE

COLLECTING BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY

Hunter Museum, Chattanooga (US)
26 Aug 2022 – 5 Mar 2023

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz
The Power of Photography

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
11 Jun 2022 – 3 Sep 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Kristoffer Albrecht, Eve Arnold, Sid Avery, David Bailey, Bruno Barbey, Lillian Bassman, Filippo Belli, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Joel Bernstein, Samuel Bourne …
Light as Medium: The TOP Collection

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
2 Mar 2022 – 5 Jun 2022

with Ansel Adams, Laure Albin-Guillot, Anna Atkins, Walter Chappell, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Susan Derges, Ei-Q, William Henry Fox Talbot, Emmet Gowin, Andre Kertesz, Man Ray , Laszlo Moholy-Nagy …
The Land

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
22 Jan 2022 – 28 May 2022

with Ansel Adams, Jeffrey Conley, Michael Kenna, Kurt Markus, Pentti Sammallahti, Brett Weston
The Fine Print

Robert Klein Gallery, Boston (US)
23 Oct 2021 – 15 Feb 2022

with Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Ilse Bing, Gertrude Kaesebier, Yousuf Karsh, Michael Kenna, Man Ray , Olivia Parker, Aaron Siskind, Rodney Smith, W. Eugene Smith, George Tice …
The Grand Opening 2021

Andrew Smith Gallery, Tucson (US)
18 Sep 2021 – 5 Dec 2021

with Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Lee Friedlander, Flor Garduno, Laura Gilpin, Zig Jackson, Annie Leibovitz, Shelley Niro
VINTAGES

Galerie Argentic, Paris (FR)
11 Feb 2021 – 27 Mar 2021

with Eugene Atget, Edouard Baldus, Edouard Boubat, Denis Brihat, Harry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lucien Clergue, Andre Adolphe-Eugene Disderi, Claude Dityvon, Robert Doisneau, David Douglas Duncan, Franco Fontana …
Enigma

Vision / Neil Folberg Gallery, Jerusalem (IL)
30 Oct 2019 – 12 Dec 2019

with Ruth Bernhard, Neil Folberg, Jennifer Schlesinger
All You Need Is Love

Scheinbaum & Russek, Santa Fe (US)
9 Feb 2019 – 10 Mar 2019

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Brassai, Harry Callahan, Manuel Carrillo, Henri Cartier-Bresson, John Dugdale, Lynn Geesaman, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Andre Kertesz, Annie Leibovitz, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Abelardo Morell …
Paige Pinnell: The Artist as Collector

An Exhibition of the Photographic Collection and Personal Works by Paige Pinnell

Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe (US)
11 Jan 2019 – 23 Feb 2019

with Edward S. Curtis, William Henry Jackson, Paige Pinnell, Jerry N. Uelsmann, Todd Walker, Todd Webb, Edward Weston
No Time

The McEvoy Foundation for the Arts (MFA), San Francisco (US)
21 Sep 2018 – 19 Jan 2019

with Ansel Adams, Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Keith Carter, Binh Danh, Gohar Dashti, John Divola, Mitch Epstein, Lee Friedlander, Adam Fuss, Charles Gaines, Emmet Gowin …
East Meets West

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
6 Dec 2018 – 19 Jan 2019

with Keiichi Asano, Horace Bristol, Rolfe Horn, Machiko Kurita, Koichiro Kurita, Brett Weston
Abstractions, A-Z

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
25 Oct 2018 – 1 Dec 2018

with Ansel Adams, Ruth Bernhard, Imogen Cunningham, William A. Garnett, Rolfe Horn, Vilem Kriz, Mona Kuhn, Ron Moultrie Saunders, Edmund Teske, Cara Weston, Brett Weston, Minor White
21st Annual Summer Sale

Alan Klotz Gallery, New York (US)
7 Jul 2018 – 17 Aug 2018

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Harry Callahan, Robert Capa, Carl Chiarenza, Peter Henry Emerson, Gerard Petrus Fieret, Francis Frith, Heinz Hajek-Halke, Andre Kertesz, Erik Kessels, Herb Ritts
Mid-Century. American

International Photography Yearbook

Keith de Lellis Gallery, New York (US)
12 Apr 2018 – 15 Jun 2018

with Jules Aarons, Ansel Adams, Arthur Ann Segan, Ruth Bernhard, Harold Feinstein, Jonathan Hollingsworth, Pirkle Jones, Clemens Kalischer, Arthur Leipzig, Leonard McCombe, Walter Rosenblum, Louis Stettner …
Hope Springs Eternal

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
15 Mar 2018 – 30 Apr 2018

with Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harold E. Edgerton, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Pentti Sammallahti
Terre di Uomini

FMAV - Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena (IT)
27 Oct 2017 – 7 Jan 2018

with Ansel Adams, Philip Kwame Apagya, Yto Barrada, Gabriele Basilico, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Walter Chappell, Deren Coke van, Franco Fontana, Vittore Fossati, Lee Friedlander, Luigi Ghirri …
CELEBRATING 25 YEARS!

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
7 Nov 2017 – 29 Dec 2017

with Berenice Abbott, Ruth Bernhard, Wynn Bullock, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Imogen Cunningham, William A. Garnett, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Irving Penn, Arthur Rothstein, W. Eugene Smith, George Tice …
The Art of the Platinum Print

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
9 Sep 2017 – 2 Dec 2017

with Mario Algaze, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Cecil Beaton, Brigitte Carnochan, Jeffrey Conley, Elliott Erwitt, Martine Franck, Flor Garduno, Rene Groebli, Chester Higgins, Horst P. Horst, George Hoyningen-Huene …
ZEN

Galerie Argentic, Paris (FR)
7 Sep 2017 – 7 Oct 2017

with Claude Batho, Edouard Boubat, Brassai, Jean-Yves Brégand, Philippe Breson, Denis Brihat, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Lucien Clergue, Laurent Gudin, Jean-Baptiste Huynh, Max Pam, Bernard Plossu …
Small Things Considered II

Laurence Miller Gallery, New York (US)
5 Jul 2016 – 19 Aug 2016

with Diane Arbus, Will Brown, Luca Campigotto, Denis Darzacq, Jack Delano, David Graham, Mikhail Gubin, Eiji Ina, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Joseph Jachna, DoDo Jin Ming, Kenneth Josephson …
Photo Lab

New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe (US)
7 Mar 2015 – 26 Jul 2015

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lewis Baltz, Thomas Barrow, Judy Dater, Jan Saudek
Two American Photographers in Britain and Ireland

Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (US)
26 Jun 2014 – 14 Sep 2014

with Bruce Davidson
Portraits of the 20th Century

Peter Fetterman Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
15 Mar 2014 – 28 Jun 2014

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Kristoffer Albrecht, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eve Arnold, Lillian Bassman, Ruth Bernhard, Joel Bernstein, Edouard Boubat, Caj Bremer, Dan Budnik, Harry Callahan …
Sacred Forms

KMR Arts, Washington Depot (US)
20 Apr 2013 – 31 May 2013

with David Heald
Iconic Images from Master Photographers

Open Shutter Gallery, Durango (US)
30 Mar 2013 – 9 May 2013

with Annie Leibovitz, Steve McCurry, Edward Weston
Howard Greenberg - Collection

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
21 Sep 2012 – 6 Jan 2013

with Berenice Abbott, Robert Adams, Eddie Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Arthur Ann Segan, Diane Arbus, Lillian Bassman, Werner Bischof, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt, Claude Cahun, Harry Callahan …
Sputnik

Internationale Fotografie aus drei Jahrhunderten

Museumsberg Flensburg, Flensburg (DE)
26 May 2011 – 21 Aug 2011

with Ansel Adams, Edward Weston
Polaroid (Im)possible

The WestLicht Collection

WestLicht, Wien (AT)
17 Jun 2011 – 21 Aug 2011

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Nobuyoshi Araki, Edouard Boubat, Lucien Clergue, Charles Eames, Walker Evans, Toto Firma, Franco Fontana, Joan Fontcuberta, Gisele Freund, Luigi Ghirri …
Ganbare Japan

Scott Nichols Gallery, San Francisco (US)
5 May 2011 – 25 Jun 2011

with Keiichi Asano, Horace Bristol, Rolfe Horn, Eikoh Hosoe, Hiroshi Osaka, Marc Riboud, Brett Weston, Don Worth
Le paradis, ou presque : Los Angeles [1865-2008]

Musée Nicéphore, Chalon-sur-Saone (FR)
24 Oct 2009 – 31 Jan 2010

with Thomas Michael Alleman, Richard Avedon, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Jo Ann Callis, Herb Carleton, Gusmano Cesaretti, William Claxton, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, John Divola, Vadim Fiskin …
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE : LOS ANGELES (1865-2008)

Le paradis, ou presque - Los Angeles (1865-2008)

PHOTO ELYSEE, Lausanne (CH)
31 Jan 2009 – 19 Apr 2009

with Harry Adams, Ansel Adams, Laura Aguilar, Clem Albers, Thomas Michael Alleman, Richard Avedon, James Baker, John Baldessari, Lewis Baltz, Adam Bartos, Haven G. Bishop, Kaucyila Brooke …
Seventies, le choc de la photographie américaine

Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (FR)
29 Oct 2008 – 25 Jan 2009

with Diane Arbus, Lewis Baltz, Harry Callahan, Larry Clark, Joe Deal, Tom Drysdale, Walker Evans, Louis Faurer, Larry Fink, Robert Frank, Leonard Freed, Lee Friedlander …
Minor Impact

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York (US)
12 Sep 2008 – 18 Oct 2008

with Carl Chiarenza, Henry Horenstein, Nathan Lyons, Marc PoKempner
Photographs of America Part II

PGI - Photo Gallery, Tôkyô (JP)
4 Sep 2008 – 30 Sep 2008

with Robert Adams, Linda Connor, Judy Dater, Debbie Fleming Caffery, Elijah Gowin
20/20 Vision

Celebrating 40 Years of Photography at Sunset Center

Center for Photographic Art, Carmel (US)
2 Nov 2007 – 7 Dec 2007

with Ansel Adams, Nobuyoshi Araki, Eugene Atget, Harry Callahan, Martha Casanave, William Christenberry, Dennis Hopper, Eikoh Hosoe, Andre Kertesz, Dorothea Lange, Deborah Luster, David Maisel …
Objects Placed

Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla (US)
9 Sep 2005 – 4 Nov 2005

with Virginia Beahan, Jayne Hinds Bidaut, Kate Breakey, Vilem Kriz, Nickolas Muray
8 x 10

Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah (US)
12 Jun 2005 – 14 Sep 2005

with Slim Aarons, Edouard Boubat, Harold E. Edgerton, Harold Feinstein, Neil Folberg, O. Winston Link, Pentti Sammallahti
Up to Now

Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah (US)
30 Aug 2004 – 6 Oct 2004

with Margaret Bourke-White, Brassai, Andreas Feininger
Relating to Photography

Highlights aus privaten Frankfurter Fotorgafie-Sammlungen

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
13 Aug 2004 – 26 Sep 2004

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Paul Almasy, Pierre Jean Amar, Ellen Auerbach, John Baldessari, Edouard Baldus, Max Baur, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Lucie Beppler, Ruth Bernhard …
In the Center of Things: A Tribute to Harold Jones

CCP Center Creative Photo, Tucson (US)
3 Apr 2004 – 18 Jul 2004

with Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Mark Cohen, Linda Connor, Carol Flax, Robert Frank, Judith Golden, Emmet Gowin, Robert Heinecken, Eikoh Hosoe, Barbara Kasten, Andre Kertesz …
2004 Print Auction Exhibition

Houston Center Photography, Houston (US)
16 Jan 2004 – 8 Feb 2004

with Ruth Bernhard, Peter Brown, Dan Burkholder, Keith Carter, f&d Cartier, Flor Garduno, Kimberly Gremillion, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Michael Kenna, Osamu James Nakagawa, Jerry N. Uelsmann

Events

THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2026

Obscura Gallery, New York (US)
23 Apr 2026 – 26 Apr 2026

with Brian Adams, Susan Burnstine, John Paul Caponigro, Rania Matar, Lou Peralta, Lynn Stern
Photographs Online

The Connoisseur's Edition

Bonhams New York, New York (US)
17 Feb 2026 – 27 Feb 2026

with Ansel Adams, Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Joan Fontcuberta, Henry Gilpin, ZHANG Huan, Helen Levitt, Taryn Simon, Hank Willis Thomas, Kansuke Yamamoto
Paris Photo 2025 - Group show

Bruce Silverstein, Paris (FR)
13 Nov 2025 – 16 Nov 2025

with Berenice Abbott, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Ilse Bing, Constantin Brancusi, Harry Callahan, Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Adger Cowans, Frantisek Drtikol, Josef Ehm, Elliott Erwitt …
JEAN DIEUZAIDE – PHOTOGRAPHS – STUDIO & COLLECTION

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)
21 Oct 2025 – 22 Oct 2025

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, René Basset, Werner Bischof, Edouard Boubat, Bill Brandt, Denis Brihat, Nicholas Callaway, Vari Camarès, Lucien Clergue, Pierre Cordier, Judy Dater …
Collection Lucien Clergue

PARTIE II - PHOTOGRAPHIES

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)
9 Apr 2025 – 10 Apr 2025

with Ansel Adams, David Bailey, Bill Brandt, Brassai, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lucien Clergue, Edward S. Curtis, Robert Doisneau, Gisele Freund, Mario Giacomelli, Philippe Halsman, Jean Baptiste Hugo …
Photographs

Doyle Auctions, New York (US)
10 Dec 2022 – 12 Dec 2022

with Ansel Adams, Richard Avedon, Ruth Bernhard, Julie Blackmon, Nick Brandt, Brassai, Larry Clark, Annie Leibovitz
THE PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW

presented by AIPAD 2022

AIPAD, New York (US)
20 May 2022 – 22 May 2022

with Berenice Abbott, Ansel Adams, Adou, Albarran Cabrera, Albarran Cabrera, Eugene Atget, David Attie, Lewis Baltz, Anthony Barboza, Cornelius M. Battey, Peter Beard, Ruth Bernhard …
photo la 2020

photo l.a., Santa Monica (US)
30 Jan 2020 – 2 Feb 2020

with Ansel Adams, Sia Aryai, Iwan Baan, Morley Baer, Cecil Beaton, Tom Blachford, Julie Blackmon, Dinesh Boaz, Felix Bonfils, Kate Breakey, Wynn Bullock, Christopher Burkett …
photo la 2019

photo l.a., Santa Monica (US)
1 Feb 2019 – 3 Feb 2019

with Ansel Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Diane Arbus, Keiichi Asano, Sid Avery, Roger Ballen, Lewis Baltz, Cara Barer, Jeffrey Becom, Valerie Belin, Ruth Bernhard, Tom Blachford …
Photographs & photobooks

A l'occasion de Paris Photo - Collection Sudre et divers

ADER NORDMANN DOMINIQUE, Paris (FR)
7 Nov 2018 – 8 Nov 2018

with Berenice Abbott, Laure Albin-Guillot, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Eugene Atget, Claude Azoulay, Edouard Baldus, Felice Beato, Eva Besnyoe, Werner Bokelberg, Edouard Boubat, Margaret Bourke-White, Bill Brandt …
Photographs Sale 2834

Christie's New York, New York (US)
3 Apr 2014

with Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Richard Avedon, Peter Beard, Dorothea Lange, Vik Muniz