Caputto, Carlos

He dedicated himself professionally to photography starting in 1985, the year he settled in Buenos Aires, after nine years living in Milan, Italy, where he worked as a stage technician at the Teatro alla Scala. He participated in tours and festivals throughout Europe, Israel, and Japan. In 1987 and 1988, he was selected for the XIII National Photography Salon and for the Argentine Contemporary Photography exhibition at the National Exhibition Halls in Buenos Aires. He took part in the "Critics' Award for Photography" exhibition organized by the Argentine Association of Art Critics at CAYC (1989). He held his first solo exhibition in 1990 at the Photo Gallery of the Teatro San Martín. Simultaneously, he worked as a photographer at the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires and was part of the "Architectural Memory" team of the University Extension Secretariat. He was invited by Sara Facio to participate in the "10 x 10 Collect Photographs" exhibition (1991) at Harrods in the art section. That same year, he held two solo exhibitions, one at the Marta Zatonyi studio and another at the Decorative Art Museum Firma and Odidilio Estévez in Rosario. In 1992, his work was exhibited at the Casal de Catalunya, the Giesso Space, and the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. Again at the Photo Gallery of the Teatro San Martín, he participated in the collective exhibition "Eight years, ninety exhibitions" (1992). He participated in the IV Open Encounters of Photography, organized by the Argentine School of Photography (August 1992), with a demonstrative talk on "Emulsion on paper." At the Center for Art and Communication (CAYC) in collaboration with Cecilia Biagini, he created the installation "Photos in acrylic boxes" (1994). In 1994, he closed the year with a retrospective at the Fotograma Gallery in the city of San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Throughout those years, he worked for visual artists, creating portraits and shots for catalogs, and also dedicated himself to teaching. In February 1995, he participated in the exhibition "One Hundred Years of Photography in Argentina: 1890 - 1990." This tribute to the country's great masters was later exhibited at the Photo Gallery of the Teatro San Martín and finally throughout 1996 and 1997 in Paris, London, Rome, and Madrid. He died on March 11, 1995, while preparing an exhibition that took place in July of the same year at the Photo Gallery of the Teatro San Martín.