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Mitchell Funk
Dust bowl Texas Sunset with Dramatic Sky Windmill - Orange and Yellow landscape

1980

About the Item

While on assignment in 1980 for a Life Magazine story on drought in Texas, Mitchell Funk encountered this vast landscape near Wichita Falls. A windmill with a wood fence and barns are silhouetted against a dramatic sunset. Like many of Funk's trailblazing images of the 1970s and 1980s this image is characterized by graphic simplification and discreet use of color. The narrative reminds recalls the "Grapes of Wrath dustbowl. Funk's oeuvre is wide-ranging, but it's his abstract colorful landscapes have been featured on the covers of many newsstand magazines. This image was not picked by the Life editors who decided to choose Funk's more documentary images for the story. Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 3/15, lower right recto. Other sizes are available and the fine art photograph is unframed and printed later. This work is printed on fine art Hahnemuhle paper. Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" shows at a major museum. Brooklyn Museum, show "Images en Couleur" . 1971 Included he was included in the visionary book "Frontiers of Photography" Time Life. Color ! American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum. He has had more than 50 Photography Magazine Covers and has had covers on Newsweek, Fortune, New York Magazine and Life Magazine among others
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