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Period: 1970s
Artist: Mitchell Funk
Greenwich village Street Scene with Colorful Walls - Street Photography
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
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Manhattan Skyscraper Abstract Multiple Exposure, Kali, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This trailblazing in-camera multiple exposures of New York buildings with the moon was done in 1972. It's not just an image that pushes the boundaries of visual imagery but it is a t...
Category
Conceptual 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Twin Towers, World Trade Center with Green Filter
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. The image is signed dated lower right signed dated and numbered verso 4 /15, Unframed, Other sizes available, Printed Later
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Big Moon over Magenta Sea - Pink Crashing Wave at New Jersey Shore
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran photographer Mitchell Funk strikes a fine balance between abstraction and representation in this optically pleasing color photograph. The sky turns pink magenta as waves cras...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old New York Brooklyn Heights Promenade by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, 1972, Bathed in magical golden light. There is a sense of loneliness akin to Edward Hopper paintings where ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old New York Bar with Ballantine Beer Neon Sign
Located in Miami, FL
Moody image of a man looking out while the photographer looks in. The picture is organized in a composition of alternating floating faces and floating signs. This work also represen...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Street Art Houston Street, Soho - Early Street Art
Located in Miami, FL
Early Street Art in New York City documented in color in 1971. Street Art is not a recent phenomenon. The appreciation of it by the art world is. The horizontal white painted lines...
Category
Abstract 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
New York Skyline, Hotel Dixie
Located in Miami, FL
In the early in1970's Mitchell Funk was one of the very few photo innovators who used extreme late afternoon golden light. In "Hotel Dixie, 1975, the intense light not only illumin...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Psychedelic Hippie Guitar Player Groovy Washington Square Park
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. In-Camera Multiple Exposure with colored filters and emulsion match burn on 35mm slide
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto. Edition 4 of 15, ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Statue of Liberty and Ferry in Morning Mist
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, other sizes available
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Black Liberation Army Protest in Central Park - Civil Rights - Black Panthers
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...
Category
American Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Empire State Building Bathed in Luminous Golden Light, 1970s New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Golden late afternoon light bathes the majestic Empire State Building in luminous color as it pierces a dramatic sky. This image is not only stunning in its visual beauty but also a ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Cute Black Dog Against a Graphic Yellow Orange Wall in Mexico
Located in Miami, FL
An observing black dog is captured against a yellow and red Coca-Cola sign in Guaymas, Mexico. Shot in 1970, Mitchell Funk was innovating in color photography, which is what many col...
Category
Color-Field 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Brooklyn Bridge with Blue Sky Golden Windows and Red Kite
Located in Miami, FL
Why is this view of the Brooklyn Bridge, a blue sky, and golden windows no longer visible? The image is a creation from Mitchell Funk's mind. It comprises three photographs with colo...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Las Vegas Gambling Dice - Primary Colors
Located in Miami, FL
A boldly composed Las Vegas casino sign consisting of a three-dimensional red die rests on a King of Clubs. The very graphic sign is captured in an equally bold way by street photog...
Category
Abstract Geometric 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Futuristic Vision: Sci Fi Outer Space Cosmos Celestial Abstraction
Located in Miami, FL
Decades before Photoshop and digital photography enabled the user to manipulate a photograph easily - Mitchell Funk created some of the most original, mind-bending, and technically brilliant images in analog. This work, "Futuristic Vision: Sci-Fi Outer Space," is a composite of two inverted Transamerica Buildings on a 35mm piece of film. It was done in 1978, and that is six years after the completion of the futuristic Transamerica Pyramid Building...
Category
Futurist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Adobe Mission Church in Taos New Mexico
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church in Taos was photographed in 1973 by Mitchell Funk. The image is characterized by radical cropping and a simplification of elements and is set ...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Inspiring Spires: Empire State Building in New York City at Gold Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
A parade of New York City spires is on full display in this unique view of Manhattan from Queens. Taken in 1974, its composition and graphic appeal still inspires after 50 years. Sa...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Dream Landscape - Woman Strolls in Fantasy Forest of Blue Green
Located in Miami, FL
Questions about the nature and boundaries of reality are contextualized in this dreamy image of a woman strolling in a fantasy forest that breathes high-pitched color. Pioneering pho...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Aspen Colorado Golden Landscape Luminous Lines of Light and Bicycle
Located in Miami, FL
Golden rays transform power lines into luminous lines of light that stretch across the Aspen landscape. A solitary biker punctuates the scene. Over his 55-year photography career, M...
Category
American Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Old House and Truck in 1970's Urban Scene
Located in Miami, FL
What America looked like in 1979. This three-storied house with peeling paint, dilapidated terraces, and a clothesline was shot in Hartford, Connecticut.
Signed, dated and numb...
Category
American Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Public Statues. Young Boy and Old Man in New York City Park
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
American Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
The Cannons of Vicksburg - Civil War on My Mind Surrealism
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
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Sci Fi Close Encounters with Orange New York City
Located in Miami, FL
Conceptual Photographer Mitchell Funk created a Sci-Fi image 2 years before the iconic Close Encounters of a Third Kind was released in 1977. Funk's work is really two images combine...
Category
Conceptual 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Figures on New York Steps in Gold Chiaroscuro Caravaggio Light
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 Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Gas Station on a Foggy Night with Green Lights. Close Encounters
Located in Miami, FL
The same year, the iconic science fiction movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released, visionary still photographer Mitchell Funk shot this SciFi-like image. It's of an un...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dreamy Romantic Sunset over Ottawa Canada - Red and Oranges
Located in Miami, FL
Two light sources reveal that this is not a straight shot. As a pioneer of multiple-exposure photography, "Romantic Sunset over Ottawa Canada" is typical of Mitchell Funk's experime...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink
Noguchi Cube in Negative Color
Located in Miami, FL
Generations ahead of his time, Mithcell Funk rejects straightforward documentary photography and interprets the Noguchi Cube in a style as fresh and inventive as the Cube itself.
It...
Category
Futurist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Multiple Exposure of Colorful Flowers St. Patrick's Cathedral
Located in Miami, FL
It's 1971, and most photographers were shooting in black and white. Fine Art Photography was not yet in the mainstream vocabulary of museums — almost no art galleries considered or ...
Category
Abstract Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Figures on the Steps of Bryant Park with Caravaggio Light
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
Street Art 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Surreal Desert Landscape with Blue Mountain and Magenta Moon - Monument Valley
Located in Miami, FL
"Surreal Desert Landscape" is an example of Mitchell Funk's early work. It depicts Monument Valley in an unexpected way. It's 1976 and color photography was not even seriously acknow...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Light Illuminates a Romantic Couple in Central Park - Amber and Orange
Located in Miami, FL
Golden sunlight filters through the autumn trees to illuminate two lovers on a Central Park bench. As a popular tourist location, Central Park is endlessly photographed. But Mitch...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Curvy Nude in Surreal Landscape of Red and Blue - Album Cover
Located in Miami, FL
Surreal Fantasy Album Cover Beck & Sanborn for CTI records.
This image is signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed and print...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
SciFi Surreal Landscape of Unconscious Dreams
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering SciFi photographer Mitchell Funk experiments with altered realms of reality by juxtaposing two landscapes of unnatural color to form a never-before-seen original vision. A single silhouetted figure looks out on a day-glow yellow sea leading to a dreamscape of trees. The yellow of water is picked up in the trees to unify the different perspectives. Published Popular Photography Magazine, February 1976...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Soho - Houston Street with Early Color Field Street Art
Located in Miami, FL
Illuminated in rim lighting, a lone man sits crouched in front of an early example of street art. A giant abstract painting raises seven stor...
Category
American Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Street Basketball with Angelic Light Burst in Gold
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
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Two Facades - Old New York Bar with Surreal Mid-Century Mannequin Face
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 ...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Las Vegas Golden Nugget Fremont Street at Night
Located in Miami, FL
The classic neon signs of Freemont Street glow and beckon in this 1975 photograph by Mitchell Funk.
The camera angle, lighting, and composition tra...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Floating Runner Glides Above Dumbo Cobblestone in Angelic Light
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 Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sailboats in New York Harbor with Silver Water and Silver Light WTC
Located in Miami, FL
When light illuminates the city, there is a good chance you will find Mitchell Funk at the ready to capture it. Glistening light skims off the water's surface, turning it light blu...
Category
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Saturated Blue Sky Small Town, Early Color Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Like William Eggleston, Mitchell Funk is an early trailblazer of color photography with unexpected images created in the late 1960s and early 1970s. This image shows a close-up of a ...
Category
American Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Nude Man Spouting in the Desert - Gay Interest- Born from Mother Earth
Located in Miami, FL
We are all born from Mother Earth. Mimicking a plant or tree, a muscular man standing on his head emerges upward from the desert ground with is legs spread out like branches. Seen f...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Light on 1970s Road - Street Photography: Literally
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photography: Literally. At a time when most color photographers were just pointing cameras and snapping images mostly during boring mid-day light, Mitchell Funk was innovatin...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Bridge Abstraction with Romantic Out of Focus Floral Colors
Located in Miami, FL
The romantic merges with the classic in Mitchell Funk's 1970s interpretation of the Brooklyn Bridge. With a long lens, Funk incorporates the emotionally joyful colors of out-of-focu...
Category
Romantic 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Solitary Running Horse Silhouetted against Blue Mountain
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
Modern 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Cobblestone Road to Lower Manhattan Skyline in Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
Magical golden light skims off a 19th-century cobblestone road that appears to lead into an equally antique-looking lower Manhattan skyline illuminated with golden light.
As a proge...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Primary Colors in Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Bright reds, yellows, blue and green stripes adorn a wall in lower Manhattan. Chairs of the same color scheme line the street and have an older woman with a scarf covering her face. ...
Category
Color-Field 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Light on Solitary Figure in Central Park
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
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Surreal Impressionist Landscape in Lavender
Located in Miami, FL
This is an in-camera manipulated photograph from 1970. It depicts soft light caressing trees as they are mirrored in the water. The image is filled with nuanced blue-magenta color. ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Interracial Friends Lost in Thought in a Brooklyn Playground
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
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Manhattan Bridge, Empire State Building, Landscape Photography
Located in Miami, FL
A golden Empire State Building sits comfortably inside the center arch of the Manhattan bridge as if that space was designed for it. Precise composition combined with magical late...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Colorful Paint Cans in Red, Orange, Blue and Turquoise
Located in Miami, FL
A pile of empty and discarded colorful paint cans inadvertently becomes an artful abstract still life in itself. Documented through the keen lens of st...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Muscular Nude Man on Dreamy Surreal Road to Destiny
Located in Miami, FL
A hunched-over nude man on an endless sunset road conjures up big themes. Time, distance, life, death, rebirth, and infinity are weaved together in a purposely enigmatic and dreamli...
Category
Surrealist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Vintage Sign Holiday Inn - Mid Century at Night
Located in Miami, FL
Retro Holiday Inn neon sign on a foggy night with vintage cars.
Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed, printed ...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Head Shop East Village New York City, Hippie Era
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
Contemporary 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Moondog in Infrared Against Black Rock CBS Building, Street People
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...
Category
American Realist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
African American Youth With Water Reflections
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
Conceptual 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sun Reflector with old men in the park. Vintage New York Street Scene
Located in Miami, FL
The glorification of light was an early theme Mitchell Funk employed in his street photography. Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this...
Category
Impressionist 1970s Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
