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Artist: Mitchell Funk
Artist: Ellen von Unwerth
Art Deco Movie Theater Marquee - Color Field Painting Meet Photography, Abstract
Located in Miami, FL
A marquee for an Art Deco Movie theater in Denton, Texas is photographed with meticulous precision by street photographer Mitchell Funk. Funk's approach...
Category

1980s Color-Field Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Haight-Ashbury Architecture and Groovy Man
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. Haight-Ashbury in full bloom. I single Hippie like figure is framed perfectly in the doorway to give this beautiful urban graphic scale. The image ca...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Whimsical Woman with Colorfully Fanciful Outfit Blue Eyeglasses
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Picture of the Unknown - Plein Air Painter's Surreal Dream
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Heard of Elephants on African Plane at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
Silhouetted elephants trek across a desolate African landscape are backlit by a soulful sunset. Color photographer Mitchell Funk pushes the boundaries of animal portraiture with a pr...
Category

1980s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Manhattanhenge, Big Sun Sunset Manhattan Street Golden Light Silhouetted People
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated lower and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, unframed, other sizes available. Manhattanhenge. Unique moment where the sun aligns with the east to west grid structure of t...
Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Photography

Materials

Inkjet

Bowery Street Scene with Abstract Graffiti
Located in Miami, FL
A 19th-century red fire call box is smothered in street advertisements and graffiti. It dominates the left half of the composition. Behind i, a street-l...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Urban Melancholy Blue. Motionless Young Man, Graffiti Wall in Soho
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Pink Flamingos Socializing with a Colorful Background
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Golden and Yellow Foliage in Central Park - Nature Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Nature Photography in the City. Central Park's Autumn foliage is transformed into a delightful abstract pattern where natural organic shapes interact with the architectonic shapes of...
Category

2010s Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building Spire with Moon - Art Deco skyscraper
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering Color Photographer Mitchell Funk carefully crafts a composition where the graceful Art Deco shapes of the Chrysler Building spire play off t...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Jet Ski Water Sport Action Wave Race in Blue Water
Located in Miami, FL
A Jet Ski - Wave Runner race is documented from an elevated position to be as abstract as it is representational. Diagonal white trails of waves extend behind each colorful Jet Ski l...
Category

2010s Abstract Photography

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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Snowy Night, Rainy Night in Manhattan with Orange Sky
Located in Miami, FL
A solitary hooded figure crosses a desolate Manhattan street as light snow and rain come down. For 54 years, Mitchell Funk has been chronicling the effects of light on form; here, h...
Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Simplified Landscape Miami, 70s Car
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15, Unframed. Printed later, Other size available, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category

1970s American Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Brooklyn Heights Promenade in Golden Light - Magical Light - Edward Hopper
Located in Miami, FL
This early work by street photographer Mithcell Funk, shows a lone woman gazing out from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The whole image in ...
Category

1970s Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Free Spirited Asian Female Dancing Outdoors against Green Background
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Frenzied Pedestrians at Crosswalk Times Square - Street Photography Literally
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

World Trade Center, Twin Towers Manhattan
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, Dated, Numbered 3/15 recto, unframed, printed later, other size available
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Portrait of a San Francisco Cable Car Soaked in Bronze Light
Located in Miami, FL
In an unexpected bronze light, Mitchell Funk captures a classic view of San Francisco with a portrait of a famed cable car. The reflection of light in the car's left window gives the...
Category

1990s Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Alamo Square Victorian Houses, San Francisco - Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
Alamo Square Painted Ladies with modern skyscrapers in background, San Francisco. Signed dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto, other sizes available, unframed, printed later. ...
Category

2010s Post-Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Sailboats: Palace of Fine Arts San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
Quintessential view of the Palace of Fine Arts with the picturesque San Francisco Bay and an armada of sailboats. Signed dated and numbered 2/15...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

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

1970s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Timeless Cherry Blossoms in Central Park Pre-War Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
Cherry Blossoms in Central Park with a lone figure in a blue shirt set against the iconic pre-war architecture of Central Park West. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on v...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Abstract City - Ephemeral Golden Building New York Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
Abstract City - Ephemeral Golden Building New York Architecture Can a street photograph be a grab shot and precisely designed at the same time? Mitchell Funk says yes. He brings fine...
Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Shirtless Man with Hat Against Pink Wall Chelsea, Manhattan - Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpectedly bright magenta wall serves as a background for a hatted passerby. In 1970 very few people were shooting in color, and just a handful of photographers exploited the co...
Category

1970s Street Art Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Midtown Manhattan at dusk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 3 of 15, Printed later. Unframed
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Vintage Las Vegas- Fremont Street Neon Signs, The Mint, Old Las Vegas
Located in Miami, FL
The neon signs of Fremont Street's casinos are more than just documented by photographer Mitchell Funk. They are carefully composed as if it were a studio still life with each elemen...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Downtown Manhattan Skyline with Graffiti Wall, Architectural Photography
Located in Miami, FL
The towering glass skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan are framed by a colorful rooftop graffiti wall in this captivating photograph by street photographer Mitchell Funk . The fine art p...
Category

2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Pigment

Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship - Impressionist Misty Blue
Located in Miami, FL
One of the defining characteristics of Mitchell Funk's work is how he shoots with light. In "Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship," Funk takes light into a new realm and in doing so...
Category

2010s Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Eiffel Tower with flocks of people
Located in Miami, FL
The arching shape of a 20mm lens reflected in the grand arches of the Eiffel Tower. Flocks of meandering tourists give a sense of scale Grandiose wrought iron tower...
Category

Early 2000s American Modern Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Chrysler Building Spire in Golden Light Intersected with Airplane, Art Deco
Located in Miami, FL
An uncanny juxtaposition of sleek design. The bold geometric forms of the Chrysler Building Spire are set against the equally sleek lines of a contempo...
Category

2010s Art Deco Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Sailboats , Marina District, San Francisco - Blue Water , Blue Sky
Located in Miami, FL
White sailboats form a beautiful pattern in San Fransico Bay. The shapes of Sailboats in San Francisco dot the bay and are echoed by Cumulus clouds Signed and dated on the lower r...
Category

Early 2000s American Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic 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

1970s Post-Impressionist Photography

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

1970s Abstract Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Muscular Nude Man on Dreamy Surreal Road to Destiny - Primal Man in Nature
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

1970s Surrealist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

All American Favorites: Husky Dogs and Clint Eastwood in Times Square
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Neon Bar Sign Glow on Moody Manhattan Nocturne
Located in Miami, FL
Manhattan Nocturne by Mitchell Funk. The colors are the music of the night. The image is a stunning example of the artist’s blending of the abstract and representational. Signed, ...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Synchronous Pedestrians - Three Figures Crosswalk
Located in Miami, FL
Three synchronous figures cross a Manhattan street just after a snow fall. The normally black pavement is turned light grey due to the salting of the street. Mitchell Funk is a "Colo...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Manhattan Window Reflections in Red and Blue
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a Street Photographer who shoots gritty themes that come out beautifully. In "Manhattan Window Reflections," a typically drab street scene is transformed into a vivi...
Category

2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

"Messiah is Hear" with Godly Light, Celestial Light
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

San Francisco Skyline Blue Sky and One Big Cloud, Landscape Photography
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco Skyline with Blue Sky is depicted in a artfully way. One big puffy cloud hovers over the skyline of San Francisco and is counterbalanced by a big puffy area of fog. Th...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Poetic Light Skims off Tennis Court with Running Dog
Located in Miami, FL
Dawn's skimming light illuminates a New York City urban park and is captured from a high vantage point. The colors and long shadows make the image as abstract as it is representation...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building Art Deco in Minimalist Composition, Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
As with most of Mitchell Funk's street photography, his images are the opposite of sloppy shoot and grab. He brings the compositional exactitude of studio photography outdoors. In "Chrysler Building...
Category

2010s Art Deco Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Bird Party on a New York Water Tower
Located in Miami, FL
This is a long lens selective focus shot of a "Pigeon Party" atop one of Manhattan's many wood water towers. Like all of Funk's street photography, he designs his pictures with the...
Category

Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Lonely Looking Wide Eyed Dog in a Car Window
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...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Golden Dessert Road to Infinity in the American West
Located in Miami, FL
An endless road is pictured in a timeless landscape. As the road winds through the vast expanse of the American West, the grandeur of the surrounding landscape minimizes a solitary c...
Category

1980s Contemporary Photography

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

1970s Street Art Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Two African American Women Shine in Pink and Orange on Easter Day Parade
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Spiritual Hare Krishna Central Park, Consciousness is the Original Energy
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 capt...
Category

1970s Street Art Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

White Doves over New York City Bethesda Fountain in the Snow Romantic
Located in Miami, FL
Snow scene in Central Park in blue and white. White Doves over New York City Bethesda Fountain in the Snow. This is an image about the interaction between winged creatures.. .some are birds, and some are statues. The birds are in flight and the bronze with outstretched wings is poised to flight. Circling the bronze, the birds seem to be egging on the bronze statue to join them. Funk employs a blur effect of the birds combined with soft snow that envelops the fountain sculpture designed by Emma...
Category

1990s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

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

1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Blooming Magnolia Tree In Spring, Central Park New York City in Pinks and Blues
Located in Miami, FL
Pink and Blue colors caress a long park bench with magnolia tree and petals on the ground In Central Park. Shipping should be around $100. This archival color photograph by fine art ...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet

A Contrast of Two Art Styles - Graffiti Bus & Blue Umbrella on Rainy Day
Located in Miami, FL
A contrast of two art styles describes this street photograph. A school bus-covered chaotic brush-stroked graffiti is juxtaposed with a symmetrical, color field-like umbrella compose...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Painted Ladies Victorian Architecture, Alamo Square San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
Famous Photographer Mitchell Funk captures a colorful image of the classic scene of San Francisco's colorful Victorian Architecture. This is no...
Category

2010s American Realist Photography

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 Light " a unique and pioneering photograph. Taking in 1974, it was a rejection of contemporary color photography at the time, which was not concerned with light. This image by Funk is a glorification of light. As light strikes form, it becomes stylized and almost abstract, creating a new relationship between subject and style. An indication of the date this was taken is revealed by the old fashion TV antennas...
Category

1970s Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Snowstorm in Central Park by Mitchell Funk Winter Scene Monochomatic
Located in Miami, FL
A dot of red in a sea of white captured by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk. The sub-text of this image is that in one of the world's most crowded places a person can be su...
Category

2010s Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet

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

1970s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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