Advance Notice: The last print offer (of our experimental year of one print sale per month, which we almost kinda stuck to) will start on Thursday at noon.
I'm pleased and proud to report that it will be a second "father and son" image from Paul Caponigro, one of the greatest American large-format photographers of the second half of the 20th century, and his son John Paul Caponigro, long known and widely collected as an early and devoted pioneer of digital imaging. Both are well known as master printers in their different chosen media. Father and son collaborated on the selection of the paired images, which are printed together on a single sheet by John Paul and signed by both photographers.
The Caponigros' first offer here was extremely popular, selling well over 100 prints. Although the price is expensive for one of our sales, it is by quite a large margin the cheapest way to acquire signed original prints by either of these renowned fine-art photographers. Their first effort for us was a thing of beauty and remains one of my favorites of all our print offers (as well as the only one of our print offer prints to be selected for the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution).
I get to see the print today; you get to see it on Thursday. Please come back then and take a look!
Mike
Just Sayin' Dept.: With Exiles out and The Decisive Moment just about to hit the pipeline, is there any book that cries out more urgently for a reprint than Paul Caponigro's The Wise Silence ? One of my top-ten all-time photobooks and a great masterpiece of the photographic book, as well as a must-have for any fan of large-format film photography.
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Mark Sampson: "I saw the 'Wise Silence' show (many times) at George Eastman House and promptly bought the book. Thirty years later it's still a prized possession...and in '98 or so I got Mr. Caponigro to sign it."
Mike replies: I would have loved to see that show....