“A POET AMONG PHOTOGRAPHERS”: FIRST EDITION OF PAUL CAPONIGRO, 1967

CAPONIGRO, Paul. Paul Caponigro. An Aperture Monograph. (New York: Aperture, 1967). Square quarto, original beige cloth, original photographic dust jacket. $300.

First edition of the classic Aperture monograph, with 47 full-page black-and-white photogravures. From the collection of award-winning photojournalist Peter Turnley.

To Lotte Jacobi, “Paul Caponigro is a poet among photographers.” “Often linked with masters of the esthetic use of straight photographer, like Minor White and Ansel Adams, Caponigro’s work is often majestic and formal, even though subjects are frequently taken from the most informal aspects of nature: a leaf, a fleeting shadow or an irregular configuration of growth spores. ‘Fungus, Ipswich, Mass.,’ on of the artist’s most famous images,” is featured in this distinctive Aperture monograph, along with additional classic images such as “Sunflower, Winthrop, Mass.” and 45 other black-and-white photogravures. Scarce first edition of the Aperture monograph, from the collection of noted photojournalist Peter Turnley, who has chronicled “almost every important international news event of the last 15 years” for Newsweek and Harper’s Magazine; signed by Turnley on the front free endpaper.

Book fine; some soiling, closed tears along spine seams, light tape reinforcement to verso of very good dust jacket.