Paul Caponigro

3 photographs from Polaroid Type 55 negatives, including Screen and Water, Tree Stumps, Ipswich, Massachusetts, and Leaf on Screen, Ipswich, Massachusetts, each mounted, the third mounted on Bainbridge board, the first signed in pencil on the mount, the second and third with Polaroid Collection stamps, credit and annotations in ink, on the reverse, 1961-62 (Landscape, p. 50) (3)

These prints are in generally very good to excellent condition, except where noted. Screen and Water - There are stray black and blue ink marks on the mount. On the reverse of the mount, 'Beaver' is written in an unidentified hand in pencil. Also on the reverse are remnants of cloth tape hinges in the upper left and right corners. Tree Stumps, Ipswich, Massachusetts - Visible in high raking light in the lower left quadrant of the image is a soft one-inch crease that does not break the emulsion. The notations in ink in Polaroid Collection stamp on the reverse of the mount read: Print No. '369' and Box No. 'S-4.' Leaf On Screen, Ipswich, Massachusetts - Visible in high raking light along the upper edge of the image is a soft vertical crease that does not break the emulsion. Also visible in the upper right quadrant is a small matte accretion of indeterminate nature. Neither of these disturbances are visible when viewing this print at a normal distance. The mount is lightly darkened at the periphery. There are fingerprints and a few stray graphite marks near the mount edges. The notations in ink in Polaroid Collection stamp on the reverse of the mount read: Print No. '417' and Box No. 'S-5.'
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