Mitchell Funk Portrait 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
East Village Bums, Tramps Smoking and Drinking at Blue Green Wall
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Four East Village down-and-out derelicts and apparent friends sit on a step and engage in a lively chat. They are smoking and drinking. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the...
Category
1960s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Black Hippie Red Sombrero n' Flute Central Park Music Festival 60's Celebration
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A black hippie enthroned in a majestic red sombrero is captured playing a flute at a Central Park music festival in 1969. This was the same year the youth "counterculture" celebrat...
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1960s American Modern Mitchell Funk Portrait 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...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait 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 Portrait 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...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait 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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Retro Urban Street Photograph - A Conversation in Blues and Reds
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two men have a conversation and joke-it-up on the steps of a boarded-up store named Nicks Cleaners. The whole scene is awash in dreamy blues and reds. Absorbing the influence of bot...
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1980s American Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Taxi Portrait - Lost in Thought in New York City
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk's signature hi-color/design photography merges with photojournalism in this introspective New York City Taxi Portrait.
Signed, dated, numbered low...
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2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
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 Portrait Photography
Materials
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 ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Portrait 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 ...
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1960s Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old Miami Beach at Night - Ethereal Wolfie's Restaurant Neon
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The ethereal neon sign of a Miami Beach classic glows at night. Customers of Wolfie's Restaurant are seen through a window, while a backlit bus stop lightbox illuminates a single ma...
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Early 2000s American Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Fifth Avenue at Rush Hour with Extreme Intense Light, Neutral Palette
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Occupying the lower third of the picture plane, a herd of humans stride down Fifth Avenue. They form an overall pattern. The top of the picture is also comprised of a simple pat...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"Messiah is Hear" with Godly Light, Celestial Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A New York City street sign is viewed from the back. Posted to it's metallic surface are two street bills featuring a religious figure in a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
All American Favorites: Husky Dogs and Clint Eastwood in Times Square
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Assisted by the right angle and right light, Street Photographer Mitchell Funk designs an image of Times Square Billboards that is as abstract as it is representational. Two huskies ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Outrageous Flowers Colorful Hats at Easter Parade
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two participants at Fifth Avenue's Easter Parade flaunt their artistic Millinery.
Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captured this dramatic and hyper-colorful double portrait...
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Lonely Looking Wide Eyed Dog in a Car Window
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A lonely-looking wide-eyed boxer peers out a car window in anticipation that his owner will return. On closer examination, this is not a photograph of a real Boxer but a cut out of...
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2010s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Figures on the Steps of Bryant Park with Caravaggio Light
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The ephemeral nature of fleeting light is captured in Kodachrome in this early color photograph taken in 1971.
The work is signed, dated, and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other s...
Category
1970s Street Art Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Two African American Women Shine in Pink and Orange on Easter Day Parade
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Punchy pink and outrageous orange outfits shine as brightly as the subject smiles in this street photograph taken on Fifth Avenues Easter Day Parade.
Signed, dated and numbered 2/15,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Astronaut Space Walks on Park Avenue Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpected pedestrian is caught walking across Park Avenue on a rainy day. We are not sure where he came from or where he is going but he seems like he is on a mission. The Astro...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jazz Musicians Saxophone and Trumpet Vibe in Red Swirl - Music is Color
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Color is Music, and Music is Color. Two Jazz Musicians strike a high note as a colorful red swirl visually expresses the vibe of the music. It's a red-hot moment, and photographer M...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Two Facades - Old New York Bar with Surreal Mid-Century Mannequin Face
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Two Facades. Mickey's Place was Bar
/ Restaurant in Chelsea opposite the old West Side Highway. In this photograph, late afternoon light illuminates the old walk-up building giving ...
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1970s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Whimsical Woman with Colorfully Fanciful Outfit Blue Eyeglasses
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a frontal portrait of an older woman with an inventively outrageous look. Piercing blue circular eyeglasses and a handmade pointy hat remin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Joyful Jazz Trumpet Player in Silhouette Floating Orange Sunset Los Angeles
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
At sunset, a trumpeter strikes a high note above it all. The dreamy, out-of-focus lights of hip Los Angles represents his music in visual terms. Funk is ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Photography of Eccentric Women with Colorful Cloths and Yellow Umbrellas
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street photograph of an eccentric woman with a brightly colored hat and colorful clothes pushing a baby carriage with a dog occupant. She stands in front of a window display with bri...
Category
2010s Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
" Hello. I'm a Pigeon" - Golden Facade with Red Eye Pigeon in Manhattan
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk displays an unparalleled ability to translate a drab street scene into a dimensional and compelling image. A Red Eye Pigeon is captured against a facade illuminated wi...
Category
2010s Modern Mitchell Funk Portrait 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 Portrait Photography
Materials
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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Interracial Friends Lost in Thought in a Brooklyn Playground
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk uses of a 500mm telephoto lens to capture the two subjects lost in thought. Selective focus throws the background out of focus and creates a dreamy...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
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...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Moondog in Infrared Against Black Rock CBS Building, Street People
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Moondog, was a blind American composer and musician. He was a fixture in front of the CBS building Black Rock on 6th Avenue and 5nd street. Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tra...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Head Shop East Village New York City, Hippie Era
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 Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Groovy Portrait. Hippy at Psychedelic Head Shop St. Mark's Place, East Village
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Groovy portrait of a hippy in from of a Head Shop in St. Mark's Places, East Village. In the 1970s, color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, ...
Category
1970s American Modern Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
African American Youth With Water Reflections
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970's Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer of color photography. In this stunning portrait the photographer merges naturalism and representation with abstraction. A candid s...
Category
1970s Conceptual Mitchell Funk Portrait 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 Portrait 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 Portrait 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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Elderly Husband and Wife Group Street Portrait Against a Manhattan Red Wall
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 50 years ago, in 1972, it was q...
Category
1970s Post-War Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Street People. Old Man On Park Bench New York City, Monochromatic
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 1971, it was q...
Category
1970s Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Hard Times - Street People in Monochromatic Grey New York City
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 1971, it was qu...
Category
1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Street People Bowery - New York City's "Skid Row - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
For decades the Bowery as the home of a huge vagrant population in New York City. This 1970 portrait captures a derelict with piercing blue eyes that echos his blue state of mind a...
Category
1970s Modern Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Greenwich village Street Scene with Colorful Walls - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Black Boy Broken Glass Brooklyn Museum Color Photography Show by Henri Ghent
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
An early example of a street photography portrait in color and multiple exposures with an image of broken glass . Exhibited: Images en Couleur, Brooklyn Museum, 1970. ( This was firs...
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1970s American Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Homeless Souls in Bryant Park, Manhattan - Vintage New York Homeless
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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Kids having Fun in front East Village Yellow Wall, 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 Color-Field Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Neighborhood Kids on Stoop in Red Hood Brooklyn - Vintage Brooklyn
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Kids from the Neighborhood in Red Hood Brooklyn are hanging out. This is what Brooklyn was like in the early 1970s. Notice the metal garbage cans.
S...
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1970s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait 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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Kids with Colorful Clothes in Brooklyn Park - Color Photography Pioneer
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal is to make color photography full of color. In this image, notice how the colors of the kids...
Category
1970s Contemporary Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
The Bowery Skid Row Portrait. Urban Street Art - Mid Century Green Wall
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
For generations, The Bowery was known for homeless, abandoned alcoholics. This insightful and soulful portrait from 1969 shows one of the Bowery's street residents against a green w...
Category
1960s Modern Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, 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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
Times Square in the 1960s - Portrait with Dancing Sign - Street Photography
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Even at the age of 19, street photographer Mitchell Funk forged a unique style of street color photography. It was based on formal and exacting compositions with an emphasis on stron...
Category
1960s American Realist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, 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 Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Toy Rocking Horse, Naive Fun Pink Orange Photograph, Kids Room, Children's room
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk photographs a child's Rocking Horse Ride in the snow. The inherent beauty of this moving sculpture for kids is enhanced as flakes of w...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattan Street Scene With Glamours Billboard ( Street Photography )
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a Manhattan moment of contrast. The top three-quarters of the composition is a wrap-around billboard seen behind street lights. It dep...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Running Dog in First Light with Long Shadows
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
First light skims across the schoolyard pavement creating long and dramatic shadows. A golden dog is captured running through the scene and blends in creating a de Chirico like a su...
Category
2010s Surrealist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Jazz Trumpet Player by Mitchell Funk, Soulful Rainbow of Color Magenta Blue
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available. This work is printed on fine art Hahnemuhle paper. The color will vary ...
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1980s American Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Romantic Street Musician Playing the Saxophone in Golden Light and Orange
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Golden orange light caresses a street musician as he serenades the public. We can not actually hear his music but the way the picture has been crafted in beautiful tones of orange a...
Category
2010s Romantic Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dog Park in Magenta - Dogs and People having Fun
By Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers walk their dogs in an upper east side park. The scene is shot at dawn. First light skims across the ground and gives the whole picture a mesmerizing quality in pinks and...
Category
2010s Impressionist Mitchell Funk Portrait Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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Find a wide variety of authentic Mitchell Funk portrait photography available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of portrait photography to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of purple, blue, green and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Mitchell Funk in paper, archival pigment print, pigment print and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Mitchell Funk portrait photography, so small editions measuring 20 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Greg Gorman, Lawrence Fried, and Ken Regan. Mitchell Funk portrait photography prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $3,500 and tops out at $185,000, while the average work can sell for $5,500.