Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
American, b. 1950
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of color photography. In 1970, he participated in one of the first color photography shows at the Brooklyn Museum titled “Images en Couleur." In 1971, he was included in the visionary books Frontiers of Photography and Color (Life Library of Photography), both published by Time-Life. He has done more than 50 photography magazine covers, including covers for Newsweek and Life.
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Artist: Mitchell Funk
Black Liberation Army Protest in Central Park - Civil Rights - Black Panthers
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A bold Black Liberation Army banner is featured among drummers and hippies in a 1971 Central Park protest. We see a rudimentary Super 8 video camera recording it all in the lower le...
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1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Gritty Street Photography with Geometric Billboards Manhattan Street Scene
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A moment in gritty street photography is captured where street billboards and a solitary figure strike a perfect grid-like compositional balance.
Signed, dated, and numbered 3/15...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Mist at the Fountain - Impressionist Girl Relaxing like Georges Seurat
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A girl is shrouded in a golden mist of shimming water droplets emanating from a fountain. This image looks like something post-impressionist Georges Seurat would paint, but in realit...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Photography in New York - People Minimized to Colorful Abstract Shapes
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New York City pedestrians form a graphic pattern integrating with a colorful green construction wall and an orange day-glow concrete traffic barrier.
Three orange day-glow stripes e...
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2010s Abstract Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Woman with Flamboyant Hair at Cafe
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A black woman with outrageous long blond braids is captured in a cafe. She is seen through a window, and the nature of her hair integrates with the surrounding color structure.
Si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Human - Tree Fusion - ( Photographic Abstraction )
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
While in Central Park, Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a moment where a leafless tree trunk and a faceless human with a flowering hat have a symbiosis. They are both weird lookin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fleeting Glance in Fleeting Light - Washington Square Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran Street Photographer Mitchell Funks' signature style is to energize traditional photojournalism/ street photography with overly dramatic light, color, and composition. This wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Angel to the Rescue. Near Death Drug Overdose - Lower East Side
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A disheveled young man lies passed out on Ludlow Street in New York City's Lower East Side. As if he was invisible, herds of pedestrians shuffle by. An angel benevolently comes to hi...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Public Statues. Young Boy and Old Man in New York City Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, senior citizens were fixtures on New York City park benches. In this image, golden light conveys the expressive nature of a disparate relationship between an old man an...
Category
1970s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Street Fashionista in Pink Ensemble on New York City Rainy Day
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photography meets Fashion Photography in this boldly graphic image of a stylish woman with an umbrella crossing the street. The composition is minimal as its color scheme is b...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
The Cannons of Vicksburg - Civil War on My Mind Surrealism
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A silhouetted man looks out to infinity and ponders the buried memories on the hallowed grounds of Vicksburg. He is seen in silhouette in the bottom half of the composition. The top half shows two Civil War...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Pas de Deux - Romantic Tango Partner Dance in Central Park Bandshell
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two Tango Dancers immersed in their art, strike-the-pose under the towering classical half down. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk was there at the perfect moment to capture a non...
Category
2010s Romantic Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Urban Melancholy Blue. Motionless Young Man, Graffiti Wall in Soho
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An urban youth shrouds his head in a blue sweater as he coils up against a blue Soho wall marked with Graffiti. Reminiscent of Picasso's Blue Period, the photograph is characteriz...
Category
2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Picture of the Unknown - Plein Air Painter's Surreal Dream
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
It's a picture of the unknown. We do not know who the artist is. We do not know what the subject is. We do not know where the location is. It is all left to conjecture, yet the image...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Figures on New York Steps in Gold Chiaroscuro Caravaggio Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Inspired by the drama of chiaroscuro painting by Caravaggio, Mitchell Funk captures figures on the steps of Bryant Park in Manhattan. Unified by the late golden rays of the sun and t...
Category
1970s Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Frenzied Pedestrians at Crosswalk Times Square - Street Photography Literally
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk nabs the frenetic energy of Times Square, where the streets are as over-stuffed as the billboards. They are one and the same and powered by an ele...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fetish Spanking, Folsom Street Fair - Gay Interest BDSM
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Folsom Street Fair featuring public spanking - Gay Interest
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated and numbered 2/15, lower right re...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Chic Fashion Model with Fireworks Explosion of Color - Monochromatic
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A chic, high-fashion model clad in high heels and a chic hat holds a refreshing drink as she sits on a pedestal. She is depicted in silhouette as a burst of zoomed fireworks explode...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Urban Art Street Photography of Bus and Billboard Red Jacket Figure
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A tourist bus adorned with punchy hi-key graphics passes in front of a soaring Times Square billboard of similar nature. Street Photographer Mithcell Funk captures the precise momen...
Category
2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Man in Colorful African Theme Clothes Illuminated by Shaft of Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Rays of golden light burn through New York's streets and illuminate a man dressed in a vivid African-themed shirt with matching shorts. He dominates the composition that emphasizes ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Intoxicated Skid Row Bowery Homeless, Gritty Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Enter the Wood Chipper. Before the Bowery was a trendy destination, it was America's most famous Skid Row. Vagrant flophouses, 10-dollar prostitutes, dive bars, and what used to be ...
Category
1960s Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Basketball with Angelic Light Burst in Gold
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Light jumps out. Players jump up. Light bounces off a window. Basketball bounces off a backboard. The interplay of extreme light and shadow makes "Street Basketball with Angelic Li...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Pink Flamingos Socializing with a Colorful Background
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Pink Flamingos are social animals. They gather in large groups and chat it up. Their gregarious natures is a benefit for photographers. Individually the bird is a living sculpture. A...
Category
1990s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Floating Runner Glides Above Dumbo Cobblestone in Angelic Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
They say that Photography captures the truth. That couldn't be more true than in this photograph, "Runner in Angelic Light". It captures both the physical truth and also the spiritu...
Category
1970s Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Free Spirited Asian Female Dancing Outdoors against Green Background
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A young woman expresses an internal moment of joy and free expression as she strikes a spontaneous dance pose in Central Park. The scene is a captured moment by street photographer M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Businessman Running Against a Colorful Background
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A black businessman is captured dashing down the street against a colorful wall. The image is slightly blurred, adding a sense of beauty and moodiness to the image and creating harm...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Boy Playing with Bubbles In Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Bubble Encounter. Biomorphic abstract shapes from manmade monumental bubbles evoke the character of living forms. They echo the natural forms of the rocks but in a softer, lighter wa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hypnotic Dream-like Scene of Women - Surreal Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
With a nod to the surrealist painter Paul Delvaux, Street Photographer Mithcell Funk captures two differently dressed women in a dreamlike state. The lighting and architectural sett...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Surreal Kayak Party in Foggy Metaphysical San Francisco Bay with Muted Skyline
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The weather phenomenon that defines San Francisco, fog, separates a party of Kayakers from the iconic skyline. It puts them into an enigmatic limbo-like state. Photographer Mitchell ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Golden Light on Solitary Figure in Central Park
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden rays rim light a single figure sitting on a Central Park Bench. He becomes more of a shape than a specific individual and, as such, blends i...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Solitary Running Horse Silhouetted against Blue Mountain
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary galloping horse is captured in silhouette against a blue mountainous landscape. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, numbered ...
Category
1970s Modern Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Double-take. Street Photography with Eerie Blue Eyed Billboard
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A photograph of a photograph can be as real as reality. Illusion and reality on the streets of New York are on display in this double-take street photograph by Mitchell Funk. The f...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jumping Poodle Dog in Golden Amber Morning Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street photographer Mitchell Funk captures a magic moment. The image features a graceful lunging black poodle in pursuit of something outside the image area. The poodle is center...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dog Walker in Magical Golden Light - Color Hunter Photographer
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The color-hunting eye of veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk transforms drab street scenes into sanctuaries of luminous bright colors. Manhattan's grey canyons receive only fl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Two Dog Friends in Golden Light - French Poodle
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden Light defines two dogs as they have a head-to-head in a Manhattan park. Color Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the scene with a spontaneity and freshness from a rooftop van...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Dogscape - Dog in Early Morning Light Beige Colors
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Dogscape New York City. First light skims across an upper East Side playground with fallen autumn foliage.
This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is s...
Category
2010s Street Art Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Impressionist Street Scene Manhattan in Snow - Reds and Greys
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Color Photography pioneer Mitchell Funk is famous for blending representation with a broad emphasis on abstract qualities. He is a photographic minimalist cropping out extraneous details. His work focuses on color relationships and interactions between shapes. Funk started shooting in 1969, and today he's still as active as ever and continues to innovate. In "Impressionist Street Scene...
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2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Anti-Vietnam War Protesters Hippies in Central Park with American Flag
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An attractive ffemale Hippie in Central Park during an Anti-Vietnam War protest and sandwiched with another image of an American flag.
The print is signed...
Category
1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vagabond Vagrant - Life on the Fringe in the Bowery - The Streets of New York
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago in 1969, it was qu...
Category
1960s Modern Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Spiritual Hare Krishna Central Park, Consciousness is the Original Energy
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970s, Central Park was a center for celebrations and protests. In his image, the Hare Krishnas who are a mystical sect of Hinduism are capture in singing their mantra....
Category
1970s Street Art Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Skid Row Bowery Street Portrait - The Streets of New York
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 52 years ago, in 1970, it was q...
Category
1970s Expressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Abandoned Homeless Man on the Steps of Bryant Park - Street Photography in Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The early 1970s was a period of reexamination of the state of photography for Mitchell Funk. He broke with the tradition of shooting gritty street photography in black and white and ...
Category
1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hip Beautiful Black Female Roller Skates in Central Park Soaked in Golden Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A hip young black woman in Central Park pauses for a moment of reflection after her roller skate dance. Street photographer, Mithcell Funk, captures her in an off moment of introspe...
Category
1990s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Surreal City Scene with Man and his Shadows in Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Surreal City Scene with Man and his Shadows - Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available, Printed later - Printed on Hahnemühl...
Category
1990s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
South Beach in the 1970s. Old Man Walking Enters Building - Old Miami Beach
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This image of an elderly man entering a dilapidated Miami Beach apartment building shows how the famous resort looked before it became a hip inte...
Category
1970s Color-Field Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Volleyball in Central Park with Golden Light at the Magic Hour - Impressionist
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers are captured in leisure time with a magical golden rim light that transforms the subjects into shapes.
Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes avail...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Roof Top Jazz Trumpet Player Celebration of Life, Fireworks in New York
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A celebration of Life is symbolized by a rooftop Black Jazz Musician hitting the high note just as a fireworks display lights up the New York sky. Signed ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Elephant Close Up at Sunset with Wide Angle Lens, Life Magazine
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
This elephant portrait was done on assignment for Life Magazine. It was for a story about a group of three elephants who stomped to death their trainer.
In an attempt to save the ele...
Category
1980s Modern Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Young girl in an Couture Pink Dress, Fashion Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The interplay of light and shadow, greys and magenta transform a portrait of a flamboyantly dressed young girl into an optically engaging abstraction composed of alternating patterns...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Noble Lion Silhouetted at Sunset, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...
Category
1980s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Cute Dog Running in the Rain by Mitchell Funk
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A cute dog with a ball in his mouth runs in the rain. Street Photographer Mithcell Funk, capture a decisive moment in a perfect composition of red and blue triangles. Funk is an...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Graffiti Wall with Little Green Man - Urban Art Sci- fi
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Against popular belief, there really are little green men in New York City. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk, isolates an urban art wall painting in the looming above a park with people mulling around. It's a striking composition as with the central figure framed between windows. A small American flag...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Athletic Male Nude on Endless Surreal Arizona Road
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Athletic male nude about to launch out onto the open road of life. Shot on location Near Taos, New Mexico, 4 of an edition of 15, Signed, dated and n...
Category
1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink
"The Queen", Gay San Francisco , Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
" The Queen in Red" Folsom Street Fair, BDSM Leather Event Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer".
Signed dated and numbered lower right, recto, 3/15, other size available...
Category
2010s Modern Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink
Gladiators - Gay San Francisco , Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Taken at the Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH in Gay San Francisco.
Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed at th...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink
Park Avenue Patterns in Red, Black and Yellow
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Bodlly juxtaposed areas of flat color defines the Fashionista's colorful dress pattern works in counterpoint to the yellow cabs on park avenue, Signed a...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Noble Lion at Sunset
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available Pr...
Category
1980s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Children Gaze out San Francisco Street Car into the Rain, Fine Art Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Cute kids gaze out into the rain. Observed in primary colors, these primary schoolers are framed by the bold yellow and purple of a streetcar window. Mitchell Funk brings the comp...
Category
2010s American Realist Mitchell Funk Figurative Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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