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Born into a family that has had artists in every generation for well over a century, Joseph Klipple was
the first to work primarily as a photographer. These pages feature a selection of images, made over six decades, that
are representative of his camera work. However, his artistic involvement began before he knew what a camera was.
He was a daily drawer before he could write, and by the time he was ten he had produced two books of pen and ink drawings.
As a teenager, he showed promise with water colors and oils. Then a sister gave him a used Kodak Autographic camera as a
high school graduation present, and film became his major creative medium. Now, in a return to his roots—and
as a consequence of arthritic fingers—he spends more time at his easel, working mostly with various types of crayons,
which is appropriate to his role as founding editor of Crayons for Codgers, a web site intended to keep his peers creatively
active. He is also an author, having written a novel, Charlemagne Summer, and dozens of short stories. Many
are in a humorous vein—a vein that has also shown up often in his photography.
Joseph Klipple passed away on April 26, 2011, after a good, long life. His friends and family have requested that this
website be left online for your enjoyment. (See below for information on how to purchase photography by Joseph Klipple.)
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