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.
Prints of most of the images shown on these pages are available for various uses,
and inquiries should be made to the artist at the email address klippleart@mindspring.com
