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A sampling of more than a half-century of photographic image-making by a multi-talented artist

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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THE PENTHOUSE STUDIO, ARLINGTON, VA., 1960's

For a decade, this lofty space in a high-rise overlooking the Potomac River was the creative site for many Klipple portraits and commercial illustrations

DONNA, COLORADO, circa 1945
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This image was one of his first attempts at World War II-style pinup photography.

A placid lake on a bright summer day in Colorado
is typical of his early landscape work. By this time he had
graduated from the Autographic to a Rolleiflex camera.

EARLY SCENIC, ROCKY MOUNTAIN LAKE, 1950's.
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