Obscura Gallery is honored to debut an exclusive gallery exhibition of vintage, one-of-a-kind Polaroid prints made during Paul’s tenure with the Polaroid Corporation in the 1960s. In 1959, Ansel Adams introduced the Polaroid Corporation to Paul’s work, and that following year Paul became a consultant to the company, testing out their Type 55 negative/positive film, and their Type 53 positive film on his 4 x 5 view camera using a Polaroid back.

The 44 images in the exhibition were created in New England as well as Ireland and a majority of the prints in the exhibition were created on Polaroid Type 53, which does not produce a negative and creates a one-of-a-kind positive print. The project came to a close in 1969 with a selection of images created in Ireland, when that same year Paul began his Guggenheim fellowship photographing in that country. Other than exhibiting the work at the Polaroid Corporation and a couple of universities or non-profits this is the first extensive gallery exhibition of this unique work and Obscura Gallery feels privileged to be able to work directly with Paul in selling this collection, and all his photographs.

 

ZOOM WEBINAR WITH PAUL CAPONIGRO

Hear Paul Caponigro in discussion with Jennifer Schlesinger, the Owner of Obscura Gallery, about his tenure with the Polaroid Corporation in the 1960’s. The event took place Saturday, November 20, 2021, at 10 am MST.

 

We have produced an exhibition catalogue which may be purchased here.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW ALL THE WORK IN THE EXHIBITION.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL PRESS RELEASE.