Paul Caponigro on Nature

To penetrate and record, even if only reflectively through an idea-image, that which takes place in, over, under, around, and through mature, is to feel the intangible, the somewhere in-between, the what is and the what I am, the interaction between visible and invisible. This is what I look for – what I am interested in. I am concerned with what grows out of interaction.

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Photography’s potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.

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Who has the time today, really the time, to grow, to unfold, and develop in an activity or even to contemplate properly what others are doing? Life ought to be lived more like harmonious music. The pressure of hastening things, of skimming superficially, only destroys that sense of music in life.

Paul Caponigro, Aperture magazine, spring 1967