Paul Caponigro (American, b.1932) is a Contemporary photographer born in Boston, MA. After attending the Boston University College of Music from 1950 until 1951, where he studied piano, he began studying photography with Benjamen Chinn—a student of Ansel Adams and Minor White—at the California School of Fine Art. Caponigro worked with White intermittently as a student and an assistant, and this relationship had a significant impact on development of Caponigro’s style. Caponigro frequently photographs landscapes and images of nature, including flowers, cloud formations, and forest settings.

His first solo exhibition took place in 1958 at the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY. In 1960, Caponigro began teaching photography at Boston University. He was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1966 and 1975, which enabled him to pursue a long-term project of photographing ancient megalithic structures in England and Ireland. During the 1970s, Caponigro moved to New Mexico, and photographed the American Southwest while living in Santa Fe. His work is included in numerous collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.