Art in the Blood
Father and son photographers Paul and John Paul Caponigro may differ in their styles, but they share a mystical reverence for the natural world.
By Rebecca Martin Evarts
n a leafy back road in Cushing, the past and the future of fine art photography are living together in apparent harmony. Not only that, but their houses are only a hundred yards apart. Even more remarkably, they are father and son.Paul Caponigro, now seventy-three, has garnered international recognition as one of the finest landscape photographers in the nation. Like Ansel Adams and Minor White, his mentors, his exquisitely detailed large-format gelatin silver prints capture the almost indefinable spirit of the natural world.
