Caponigro, Paul. Seasons. Photographs by Paul Caponigro.

New York Graphic Society, 1988. First edition. Hardcover in gray cloth, fine with protected near fine protected dust jacket with some light indentations. 93 pages with 61 black and white photographs, mostly of nature, by Paul Caponigro.  With autobiographical text by Caponigro. Born in Boston and long term Maine resident, Paul  Caponigro (December 7, 1932 – November 10, 2024) was an American photographer, writer and pianist.  In 2001, he was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in recognition of a sustained, significant contribution to the art of photography. His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, et al. Caponigro studied with, and was influenced by, Minor White. Summary: 

Seasons by Paul Caponigro is a photographic monograph first published in 1988 that presents a lyrical collection of black-and-white photographs and an accompanying essay by the photographer himself. The book spans about 93 pages and includes approximately 61 images made with Polaroid 4×5 Land Film, offering a deeply personal and reflective body of work drawn from Caponigro’s creative explorations.

Rather than a conventional landscape survey, Seasons functions as an introspective visual meditation on time, light, and nature, emblematic of Caponigro’s lifelong photographic interests. The images range from studies of natural forms and landscapes to more intimate compositions, each crafted with his characteristic sensitivity to tone, texture, and presence.

Caponigro’s essay situates the photographs within the arc of his own artistic development—reflecting on influences, process, and the evolving relationship between the photographer and his subjects. Together, the text and sequence of images invite readers to contemplate the rhythms of the natural world and the passage of time, emphasizing the subtle poetry found in light and form throughout the changing seasons of both nature and artistic life.