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Artist: Mitchell Funk
Artist: Robert Polidori
Army Munitions Depot, Edgemont South Dakota - Life Magazine Assignment
Located in Miami, FL
In 1984 Life Magazine was in full stride. Their photo editors sent photographers on location to document stories visually. At the US Army Munitions Depot, Edgemont, South Dakota, Mit...
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1980s Surrealist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Jumping Poodle Dog in Golden Amber Morning Light
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...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival 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...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

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, ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building Art Deco Spire at Night Abstraction
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk's continued exploration into the endless and fascinating beauty of the Chrysler Building's spire takes an unexpected turn in this semi-abstract image. His use of a 500mm lens throws out-of-focus the foreground while it simultaneously frames and compliments the Manhattan art...
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2010s Art Deco Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Street Photography with Chairs and Pedestrians
Located in Miami, FL
Master of design, light, and composition, Street Photographer Mitchell Funk outdoes himself with this visually intriguing image of street patterns created by raking light. The line...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

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 ...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

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...
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2010s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Dog Walker in Magical Golden Light - Color Hunter Photographer
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...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Guggenheim Museum Reaches Out
Located in Miami, FL
Museum in a car - The artsiest of art museums is artfully depicted in street photographer Mitchell Funk's imaginative photograph. A passing red car with similar curvilinear forms has the museum's facade reflected in its roof window...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Posing Pigeons. Manhattan in Neutral Colors Grey and Gray Birds
Located in Miami, FL
A formal and highly balanced composition based on the random positions of pigeons caught the eye of street photographer Mitchell Funk. Each pigeon has it's own pose and personality. ...
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2010s Contemporary 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...
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Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Chrysler Building Spire New York Art Deco Skyscraper
Located in Miami, FL
Since 1969 Mitchell Funk has been photographing the Chrysler Building in dramatic and novel ways. This recent image incorporates the Chrysler Building's pointy neighbor, the supertall skyscraper One Vanderbilt. Its modern spire harmonizes with the 1930 soaring Art Deco icon. Notice how Funk incorporates accents of yellow that offsets the twilight blue. The entire image is accented by a cozy moon that consummates the composition. Signed and dated on the lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 other size available, unframed, Printed Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper. Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" show...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

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...
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1970s 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...
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1980s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

"The Queen", Gay San Francisco , Folsom Street Fair. BDSM Leather LGBTQ FETISH
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...
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2010s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink

Red Head Girl in the Bowery - Graffiti Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
A graffiti street scene in New York City becomes a semi-abstract picture. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available, Printe...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Impressionist Street Scene Manhattan in Snow - Reds and Greys
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Two Dog Friends in Golden Light - French Poodle
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...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

Snow in Central Park Billionaire Row - Monochromatic Grey and Blue
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 d...
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper

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...
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1990s Post-Impressionist Photography

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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...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Manhattan White Dog among Autumn Leaves , Minimalism
Located in Miami, FL
Color Photographer Mitchell Funk depicts New York City somewhere between the ideal and the real. In an Upper East Side park, he shoots a lone white dog standing at the intersection ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Dogscape - Dog in Early Morning Light Beige Colors
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...
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2010s Street Art Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Bike Rider at Sunset and the Karate Kid - Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on the lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed, Printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper. Mitchell Funk is a p...
Category

2010s Street Art Photography

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

1970s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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 ...
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1970s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Ink, 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...
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2010s American Realist Photography

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...
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1970s American Realist Photography

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

1970s Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Lower Manhattan Skyline in Gold Light with Moon. New York City
Located in Miami, FL
New York City seen uniquely through the artful lens of Mitchell Funk. We all have seen images of the financial district in Lower Manhattan but this original in a very artful way. T...
Category

2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Children's Playground Central Park in Impressionist Blue and Magenta.
Located in Miami, FL
This image was shot in Central Park. Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the intoxicatingly beautiful optical effect of natural light as it skims off of wooden swings...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Homeless Souls in Bryant Park, Manhattan - Vintage New York Homeless
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 ...
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1970s American Realist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Groovy Portrait. Hippy at Psychedelic Head Shop St. Mark's Place, East Village
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, ...
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1970s American Modern Photography

Materials

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...
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1970s Street Art Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Unexpected Billboard from The High Line Chelsea
Located in Miami, FL
An unexpected detail of a green billboard is shown occupying the full lower left-hand quadrant of a city scene composition. It was shot by street photographer Mitchell Funk from The High Line...
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2010s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Pegasus Mythical Winged Divine Horse Vintage Sign. Mid Century Street Signs
Located in Miami, FL
Red and white gas station signs and parking signs form an abstract pattern in an early example of color photography from 50 years ago in 1972. Signed ...
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1970s Abstract Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Neighborhood Kids on Stoop in Red Hood Brooklyn - Vintage Brooklyn
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Street People. Old Man On Park Bench New York City, Monochromatic
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Kids with Colorful Clothes in Brooklyn Park - Color Photography Pioneer
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...
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1970s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

The Conversation: Late Afternoon Impressionist Light in Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal: make color photography full of color in what was then a nascent ...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper

Hip Beautiful Black Female Roller Skates in Central Park Soaked in Golden Light
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...
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1990s Contemporary Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Paper

Black Boy Broken Glass Brooklyn Museum Color Photography Show by Henri Ghent
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 Photography

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Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

Joyful Birds on Roof of a Pink, Summer Beach House East Hampton, Abstract Photo
Located in Miami, FL
Three Gulls sit atop a colorful pink and white beach house near East Hampton. The lead gull is captured with his wings spread and poised to take flight. The picture evokes the summ...
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Geometric Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Skid Row Bowery Street Portrait - The Streets of New York
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Anti-Vietnam War Protesters Hippies in Central Park with American Flag
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Chrysler Building at Night, Magenta Sky on Rainy New York Night - Color Photo
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the vitality and energy of New York City's classic Art Deco skyscraper, The Chrysler Building. It glows in pink, magenta, and crimson on ...
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2010s Art Deco Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Street People Bowery - New York City's "Skid Row - Street Photography
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...
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1970s Modern Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Red Wall Lower Manhattan Street Scene - Early Color Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This image is as much about the color of the red wall and the psychedelic colors of the female's shirt street as the three figures who populate the composition. Color is a co-subject...
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1970s Color-Field Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Athletic Male Nude on Endless Surreal Arizona Road
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...
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1970s Surrealist Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink

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 capture in singing their mantra....
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1970s Street Art Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Times Square Theater Posters Morosco Theatre. FORTY CARATS
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 53 years ago in 1969 it was quit...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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

Acrylic, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink

Manhattan Street Scene with Neon.
Located in Miami, FL
At dusk in Manhattan, a restaurant facade turns red and yellow from the exterior neon light. Veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captures a moment when the snowy skies open ...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Abandoned Homeless Man on the Steps of Bryant Park - Street Photography in Color
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Art Deco Paris - Eiffel tower Place du Trocadéro Statues " Slave to Love" Gold
Located in Miami, FL
Reminiscent of the dreamy elegance of a bygone era, Mitchell Funk transforms a tourist location into the quintessence of timeless Paris chic. To achieve this the photographer had to rid the Trocadero of toursits. Next came choosing the right camera angle and lighting the scene dramatically. The photo recalls Brian Ferry...
Category

1990s Surrealist Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Colorful Victorians in Alamo Square, San Francisco, Architectural Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Street photographer Mithcell Funk celebrates the colorfully painted Victorians in Alamo Square with a color photograph that reveals the true character of the architecture. It's a jo...
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2010s Color-Field Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Kids having Fun in front East Village Yellow Wall, Street Photography in Color
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 Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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