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Masterworks In My Collection – Paul Caponigro – Apple, New York City, 1964
While this image is officially titled Apple, New York City, 1964 it’s often referred to in my father’s studio as ‘The Galaxy Apple’. Countless people’s first impression of this image is that they’re...
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Influences – Four Nudes
Sometimes you find your own voice through observing your responses to other people’s work. One of my visual journals is a collection of images that I appreciate. When you bring enough images together...
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Empowering Others – Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams impressed me as a boy. What impressed me was the total package: his images (He helped codify a movement and a genre.); his technical mastery (He refined and disseminated the zone system.);...
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Color As A Universal Language – Mark Rothko
Sometimes the things we resist influence us the most. For me, this was certainly the case with the paintings of Mark Rothko. As a young man I found myself alienated from many modernist works. I felt...
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Ephemeral Collaborations With Nature – Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy considers his sculptures collaborations with nature. It’s Goldsworthy’s pieces that don’t persist that impress me most. Why? It’s not because they reverse traditional expectations,...
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Visible Traces – Adam Fuss
Adam Fuss’ photograms encourage you to think about photography, in different ways and much more broadly. His life-sized camera-less photograms represent one man’s attempt to work with, explore, and...
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Environmental Activism/Advocacy Through The Arts – Eliot Porter
No other photographer is more influential to me than Eliot Porter – save my father. I knew Eliot through my mother’s long collaboration with him designing and overseeing the production of over twelve...
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Looking Into Darkness – Joel-Peter Witkin
I find Joel-Peter Witkin’s photography supremely challenging. It would be easy to write his work off as sensational (His images are so shocking they make headlines.), perverse (His models are, if...
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Manufactured Landscapes – Edward Burtynsky
Edward Burtynsky’s photographs deftly weave together aspects of a well-researched documentary expose and a beautifully constructed formal artistic statement, but it’s unclear which is more dominant,...
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Literally Abstract – Aaron Siskind
If he wasn’t the first, Aaron Siskind was certainly the preeminent abstract expressionist photographer. The abstract details he presents as new hyper-flat surfaces stand independent of their original...
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The Top 20 Photography Books That Influenced Me
“Enjoy this collection of photographic books that have influenced me during some of my most formative years.” – John Paul Caponigro – Find out more about my influences here. #1 Paul Caponigro’s...
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Ansel Adams – Empowering Others
Ansel Adams impressed me as a boy. What impressed me was the total package: his images (He helped codify a movement and a genre.); his technical mastery (He refined and disseminated the zone system.);...
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Mark Rothko – Color As A Universal Language
Sometimes the things we resist influence us the most. For me, this was certainly the case with the paintings of Mark Rothko. As a young man, I found myself alienated from many modernist works. I felt...
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Andy Goldsworthy – Ephemeral Collaborations With Nature
Andy Goldsworthy considers his sculptures collaborations with nature. It’s Goldsworthy’s pieces that don’t persist that impress me most. Why? It’s not because they reverse traditional expectations,...
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Masterworks In My Collection – Paul Caponigro – Apple, New York City, 1964
While this image is officially titled Apple, New York City, 1964 it’s often referred to in my father’s studio as ‘The Galaxy Apple’. Countless people’s first impression of this image is that they’re...
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