About this artwork
Paul Caponigro began photographing in his native New England, cultivating an approach to natural imagery that combined the zone system of Ansel Adams and the Zen-like approach of Minor White. His goal, he said in 1963, was “to work, by way of the photographic image, toward an understanding of that relation which exists between one’s inner activity and one’s external environment.” Returning to Massachusetts from the West Coast, he lived in a farm-house in the woods of Ipswich, where he made this photograph of frost etched on a windowpane. Hugh Edwards admired Caponigro’s exquisite prints and acquired 18 for the collection in 1969.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Paul Caponigro
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Title
- Frosted Window #2, Ipswich, Massachusetts
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1962
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Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 26.5 × 33 cm (10 7/16 × 13 in.); Mount: 44.5 × 54.9 cm (17 9/16 × 21 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation
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Reference Number
- 1969.309
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