Paul Caponigro is an American landscape photographer born in 1932 who began photographing nature at age 13. Over his nearly 50-year career, Caponigro has become renowned as one of the U.S.'s most significant master photographers, exhibiting and teaching internationally while receiving Guggenheim and NEA grants. He is currently regarded as one of America's foremost landscape photographers, known for his intuitive approach that emphasizes nature's forms and details over arrangement or surface recording.