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Caponigro, Paul (Photographer) & Sinsheimer, Karen (Contributor) : Meditations In Silver: Photographic Studies By Paul Caponigro

Nazraeli Press/Santa Barbara Museum Of Art, Tucson, AZ, 2008

ISBN 1590052269

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 68 pages. Exhibition Monograph. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The companion volume to Paul Caponigro's "Meditations In Light". The First Hardcover Edition. Published in a small and limited print run of 500 copies only. As print runs go, it is the smallest ever for a Caponigro title. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Chris Pichler: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Paul Caponigro. Essay by Karen Sinsheimer. List of Plates appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Hong Kong to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art from January 26 through April 6, 2008. Presents Paul Caponigro's "Meditations In Silver". Some of the photographer's finest and most representative still lifes in a quietly yet arrestingly beautiful format. "In the 1960's, following a move to New York City, Paul Caponigro focussed his attention on still lifes. His iconic image, 'Apple, New York City, 1964', sums up Caponigro's exploration of still life at that time as it looks forward to his later work. In 1999, 35 years later, and after a hiatus of six years from all things photographic, Caponigro stated simply, 'Objects collected from nature started to wink at me'. One senses that the meticulously composed still lifes presented on these pages are personal elegies as well as archetypical totems, inviting viewers to explore their own personal mythology. They are psychological revelations about the passage of time and the mortality that all humans share. The invitation to unfoldment is extended with a caveat requiring not only silence and time, but also the willingness to see beyond commonplace appearances of rock, leaf, and seed" (Karen Sinsheimer). An absolute "must-have" title for Paul Caponigro collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Paul Caponigro. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Caponigro did NOT sign a single copy of the book for the publisher. A rare signed copy thus. 45 duotone plates. One of the greatest American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PAUL CAPONIGRO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1590052269.

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