The latest edition of View Camera arrived a couple of days ago, and featured a small portfolio of Paul Caponigro's recent work. His photographs seem to have a wide appeal to people with very different philosophical approaches to photography. I see them as having considerable near-metaphysical qualities, trying to see beyond the surface of the object into a more contemplative world, and a zen-like (resorting to an over-used metaphor) beauty of simplicity. But other people on this forum who eschew such talk (and maybe justifiably so) as meaningless "art-speak" and "psycho-babble" (see the recent Walker Evans thread) respond to his work strongly too. (Are you reading this, Jorge?)
I really want to know; what is it in Caponigro's work that you all respond to?
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