The Wise Silence

1983/1985. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Mottled beige paper-covered boards with title stamped in gold on cover and brown cloth-covered spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs and text by Paul Caponigro. Essay by Marianne Fulton. Includes notes on the text, a chronology, exhibition history, bibliography and exhibition checklist. Designed by Eleanor Morris Caponigro. 204 pp., with 143 duotone plates beautifully printed on Mohawk Superfine paper by the Meriden Gravure Company. Letterpress type-setting, printing and binding by The Stinehour Press. 11-3/4 x 9-7/8 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1983 exhibition The Wise Silence: Photographs by Paul Caponigro at the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, New York. CONDITION: Fine in Fine dust jacket. From the publisher: «Collected here are images drawn from thirty years of work and never before seen in a single volume.the 143 images, sensitively sequenced by Eleanor Morris Caponigro, are printed in duotone of the highest quality.a landmark publication, a celebration of Caponigro’s achievement, and a prescience of work to come.