John Paul Caponigro, Date of Birth
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American photographer
Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1965
Profession: photographer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
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About John Paul Caponigro
- John Paul Caponigro (born June 23, 1965 Boston) is an Environmental Fine Art Landscape Photographer.
- He is the son of the American photographer Paul Caponigro and Eleanor Caponigro a graphic designer.
- John Paul attended Yale University, and the University of California, Santa Cruz where he was trained as a painter and later as a photographer.
- After college John moved to Maine and became an artist in residence at The Center for Creative Imaging.
- John now works with photo-based digital imaging as his primary medium.
- Dan Steinhardt of Epson considers John Paul "...one of the great mentors of the photographic medium".
- The American photographer Joyce Tenneson has said, "John Paul Caponigro is the rare combination of gifted artist and master technician.
- He works from the heart to create images that are poetic and evocative, and at times, mystical.
- He is someone whose sensitivity and intelligence work to break new ground, and someone I will enjoy watching in the years to come.".
- He has been awarded membership into many photographic organizations including the Photoshop Hall of Fame, the Epson Stylus Pros, Xrite Coloratti, and the Canon Explorers of Light.
- His work crosses the lines between photography and painting and displays knowledge of painterly composition and color theory, coupled with content of modern science, psychology, primal cultures, and the environment.
- The photographer Arnold Newman stated,"...Caponigro's mysterious and magical images go beyond reality or surrealism.
- He has created a wonderful new world of his own".
- John Paul Caponigro lives in Cushing, Maine with his photographer wife Arduina, and their son.
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